Biography
Tomsk law enforcement officers accused three married couples of extremism at once. Among them are Yevgeniy Dodolin and his wife Tatyana.
Yevgeniy was born in February 1984 in the small town of Kurtamysh (Kurgan region) in a large family—he has two brothers and a sister. Their father worked as a civil engineer, their mother as an accountant in the village administration. Parents worked hard all their lives, had their own household and instilled honesty and hard work in their children. Now they are retired. When Yevgeniy was 3, the family moved to the Kemerovo region.
As a child, Yevgeniy loved to assemble construction sets, in high school he became interested in electronics, radio engineering and programming. He also enjoyed playing volleyball and athletics. Yevgeniy graduated from the Tomsk State University of Management and Radio Engineering and completed postgraduate studies as a programmer. After graduation, he stayed in Tomsk and worked for a large oil company as an engineer in the technical information department.
Yevgeniy was looking for the meaning of life, was interested in various religious and philosophical teachings. Then he met Jehovah's Witnesses. The Bible, he says, was what he was looking for. Imbued with her teachings, Yevgeniy began to lead a healthy lifestyle, became more restrained, patient and less touchy. He began to notice more good things in people, and this helped him to show them more attention and love. He became one of Jehovah's Witnesses in July 2015. His son was followed by his mother.
In 2019, Yevgeniy married Tatyana, who shares his religious views. Before her arrest, she worked in a dining room. In her free time, she enjoys reading and dancing. The couple loves to travel together.
Relatives and friends consider the arrest of the Dodolins illegal.