Born in 1977. Deputy Director of the Novotalitsk Enterprise of Social Services. Leader of the «Left Front» movement in the city of Ivanovo. Assistant to the Representative of State Duma Ilya Ponomarev. Criminal case dismissed under amnesty law on December 13, 2013.

Rukavishnikov was charged according to Part 2 of Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code. Rukavishnikov was accused of taking part in the mass riots, among other things of pushing over a chemical toilet unit in order to use it as a barricade.