An Uzbek citizen has been convicted in connection with the terrorist attack in Yessentuki.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Uzbek citizen Alisherbek Mamadjonov to 20 years in prison, finding him guilty of participating in the terrorist organization Islamic State* and preparing a terrorist attack in Yessentuki.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," according to security officials, the Central Asian national planned to blow up a commuter train traveling from Kislovodsk to Mineralnye Vody, and then travel to Syria to join an international terrorist organization.

According to investigators and the court, in January 2025, Mamadjonov received orders to conduct reconnaissance on the railway infrastructure in Yessentuki with the aim of subsequently committing a terrorist attack. He took photographs and video of the train station and bus stop platform and sent the materials to another member of the terrorist group.

After this, he was tasked with detonating an improvised explosive device on the bus stop platform and in a commuter train car. However, he was unable to carry out his plan because he was detained by law enforcement, Interfax reports, citing the court's press service.

The court found Mamadzhonov guilty of preparing a terrorist attack, participating in the activities of a terrorist organization 1 , and preparing to manufacture explosives. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The convicted man will serve his sentence in a maximum-security penal colony and will also be required to pay a fine of 500,000 rubles. Alisherbek Mamadzhonov is 22 years old and was born in Namangan, Uzbekistan, according to his entry in the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists. According to a bot that tracks updates to this register, Fimushkin's information, marked as a terrorist, was added long before his sentencing, on February 7, 2025.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in early May, the Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Yessentuki residents Sergei Dudchenko and Nikolai Murnev to long prison terms for plotting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office.

* The organization is designated as a terrorist organization and is banned in Russia.

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