Roizman claims to have left home at age 14, to have traveled across the country and later to have started work at Uralmash as a welder.

[citation needed] Until 2015, he was a political ally of Mikhail Prokhorov[8] and was supported by the Civic Platform party.

[citation needed] In 2018, Roizman resigned after Russian authorities decided to scrap mayoral elections in the city.

[9] In May 2017, Roizman announced that he would stand in gubernatorial elections in September as the candidate from the liberal opposition party Yabloko.

He challenged acting Sverdlovsk Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev, a United Russia politician with whom Roizman has a longstanding personal rivalry.

[16] On 29 August, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe called on Russia to drop all charges against Yevgeny Roizman.

[17] On 20 September, Roizman accused representatives of law enforcement agencies of collaborating with criminal structures that receive information about his whereabouts and wiretapping.