Personal Information
- Birth date
- 5 мар. 1964 г. (62 years old)
- Special circumstances
- Ukrainian citizen, forced RF citizenship, illness, pensioner
- Notes
- Dual citizenship of Russia and Ukraine; mother was 85 years old at the time of arrest and incapacitated.
Gayday Larisa Sergeevna
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Republic of Crimea
- Detention date:
- 27 мар. 2024 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 275 CC RF
- Case categories:
- War-related, Crimea, civilian hostage
Case Description
In the urban-type settlement of Yedi-Kuyu (formerly Lenino) in the annexed Crimea, on March 27, 2024, 60-year-old Larisa Gaidai was abducted. The next day, March 28, her 60-year-old cousin Tamara Simonenko (Pavlenko) and 41-year-old Elvira Abliazova forcibly disappeared. It later turned out that the women were incommunicado without procedural status in pre-trial detention center No. 2 of Simferopol. The reasons for their detention and legal grounds for arrest are unknown. On March 5, 2026, the women were transferred to the pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Crimea. They were officially charged with high treason. Details of the charges are unknown.
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Гайдай Лариса Сергеевна, 5 марта 1964 г. ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Республике Крым и г. Севастополь, адрес: 295051, Россия, респ. Крым, г. Симферополь, б-р Ленина, д. 4 связь через: Зонателеком
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