Sovetsky District Court is a federal court of general jurisdiction in Nizhny Novgorod that hears civil, criminal, and administrative cases on the territory of Sovetsky District. It is part of the judicial system of Nizhny Novgorod Region in the Volga Federal District.

Cases heard

In September 2026, the court sentenced three employees of the joint-stock company "Teploenergo" — site foreman Evgeny Kurnikov and fitters Alexander Kuvaldin and Evgeny Koshcheev — in a case concerning an accident on a heating main on Pushkina Street, in which three residents of Sovetsky District suffered burns of varying severity after falling into a pit filled with boiling water. Kurnikov was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, suspended; Kuvaldin and Koshcheev received one and a half years each, also suspended; the probation period in all three sentences was two years.[1]

In December of the same year, the court granted an investigator's motion to seize funds of the joint-stock company Shipping Company "Volga Shipping Company" ("Volga-Flot") in the amount of 133,104,381 rubles in connection with a criminal case over damage to the upper working gates of Lock No. 16 of the Gorodets hydroelectric complex. The incident occurred on June 20 of that year: a motor ship traveling on the Gorodets — Nizhny Novgorod route collided with the lock gates as a result of a failed maneuver, with damage estimated at more than 158 million rubles. The ship's captain was charged under Part 1 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.[2]

In July 2026, the court sentenced seven residents of Nizhny Novgorod who were found guilty of illegal banking activity as part of an organized group. From January 2019 to October 2023, the members of the group accepted clients' money into the accounts of controlled legal entities and carried out clients' instructions for a fee of 9% of the amount of funds raised; the income obtained exceeded 60 million rubles. The convicted were sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 4.5 years, suspended, with corresponding probation periods, and fines of 100,000 to 200,000 rubles.[3]

Sources

  1. 52.ru (Nizhny Novgorod) — Court sentences utility workers over boiling-water pit — September 22, 2026
  2. Interfax — Court seizes 133 million rubles from "Volga-Flot" after damage to lock gates on the Volga (archive)
  3. Vremya N — Seven Nizhny Novgorod residents convicted of illegal banking activity
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Verdict for Teploenergo employees in the case of the heating main rupture on Pushkina Street (2026)