The two soldiers were sentenced to service in disciplinary battalions, where servicemen are sent for criminal offences, with one of them getting a suspended sentence.
The trials were part of a series of hazing cases at the tank academy in Chelyabinsk, 1,180 miles east of Moscow. Last week the court handed down a four-year suspended sentence to an army sergeant convicted of a hazing attack on a private.
However, court officials said the trials were not connected with the tragedy of Private Andrei Sychev, who had to have both of his legs and genitals amputated after allegedly being beaten and tortured during the New Year's holidays. The brutality of the case caused an outcry across the country.
According to official Russian statistics, 16 servicemen died in incidents involving bullying last year, but experts contend the actual number is much higher, as the official figures do not take into account hazing-related suicides.
