Biography
ьгкIn November 2020, Sergey Shatalov, who was undergoing treatment in Moscow, was unexpectedly arrested and subsequently sentenced to a long prison term because of his faith.
Sergey was born in September 1969 in Stavropol. His father died when the boy was 10, and his mother raised him alone. In his youth he was fond of chess, played table tennis, volleyball, billiards.
Sergey studied at a nautical school, then served in the army. While serving in the Navy, he was injured and subsequently disabled, so he mastered a new specialty—a commodity expert. Sergey often had to change his occupation: he worked in the field of trade, as a stage machinist in a theater, a parquet operator, a supplier, a courier.
Sergey met his future wife Yelena immediately after the army. In 1995 they got married. Yelena has several professions, is fond of preparing wedding decoration.
The search, detention and house arrest radically changed the life of the spouses. Sergey had to interrupt the necessary treatment. He and his wife had to live separately for some time, as Yelena was a witness in a criminal case against her husband. Due to being in a pre-trial detention center after the verdict, Sergey could not say goodbye to his mother, who died in summer 2023.
Relatives of Sergey and Yelena are outraged and confused, because they know the couple only from the good side. They are sure that the accusations of extremism are groundless.