Biography
When Aleksey Ovchar learned that a criminal case had been opened against him in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy for his belief in God, he had to come there for questioning from another region. The man was put under recognizance agreement, which deprived him of the opportunity to visit his elderly parents, who are separated by almost 7,000 kilometers.
Aleksey was born in August 1979 in the city of Troitsk (Moscow region). He has a younger sister. As a child, Aleksey did martial arts and was fond of fishing.
From his teenage years, Aleksey loved natural sciences and wondered about the existence of the Creator. After high school, he graduated from medical college. He was impressed by the structure and logic of the world around him, as well as the consistency of the Bible and the accuracy of the fulfillment of its prophecies. In 1997, he made the decision to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Aleksey graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. He received two diplomas with honors in the specialties "Engineering and Technologies in the field of "Telecommunications" and "Means of communication with mobile objects". Later, in Moscow and Beijing, he learned Chinese and began to teach it.
Aleksey also lived in St. Petersburg, Kaluga, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at various times. He worked as a manager in a trading company and as a translator.
Aleksey met his future wife at the Chinese language courses he conducted. They got married in 2015. Mariya is a biologist by education. She is fond of fitness and reading books. The couple enjoys traveling together, chatting with friends, and playing board games.
The fact that Aleksey faced persecution for his faith in God worries his family and friends. They try to support their spouses in every possible way. Aleksey and Mariya do not lose heart. They said, "We realized that hardship is a factory for the production of resilience."