Biography
In the Sakhalin Region, a criminal case was opened against Vyacheslav Ivanov. The court gave him a two-year suspended sentence only because of his faith.
Vyacheslav was born in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in 1970 in a family of simple workers. He has an elder brother and sister. As a child, Vyacheslav loved outdoor games and sports, enjoyed playing football, tennis, hockey, and was engaged in chasing. After school, he served in the army and received a diploma in radio engineering at a nautical school, then worked as an electrician. Since 2013, he has been an individual entrepreneur in the field of apartment renovation.
For some time, Vyacheslav lived in Magadan and Vladivostok, but then returned to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to take care of his seriously ill mother, which he did until her death in 2018.
Even at school, Vyacheslav was interested in history, he wanted to know how everything appeared. "It was bitter that I would never know about it, and I even cried because of it," he recalls. "And when an armed conflict broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh after the collapse of the USSR, I thought: where does evil come from? After all, everyone wants peace and happiness. I began to look for the answer in historical literature, but I realized that we had to go from Creation. I've heard that the Bible is an extraordinary book. By researching it, I found the answer to a question that had been bothering me for a long time."
At the end of 2007, Vyacheslav met his future wife Irina, and 9 months later they got married. She grows house flowers, knits, draws, loves to sing. Irina has two adult children who live in another city. The spouses are happy to be in nature, by the fire on the seashore, go to the forest for berries, play board games.
The criminal prosecution radically changed the life of the married couple. Irina's chronic illness worsened due to a stressful situation. The relatives of the spouses are perplexed why such a peace-loving and sympathetic person was recognized as an extremist.