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Tukhachevsky, Uborevich and others, and spread provocative rumours about
a war and the destruction of Soviet power”. Fr. Pachomius did not recognize
his guilt and was shot on some day in September, 1937.
Priest Ephraim Mikhailovich Kurdyukov. He was born in 1882 in the
village of Potodeyevo, Narovchatsky region, Mordovia, and served in the
village of Vopilovka, Narovchatsky region. In 1931 he was arrested and
sentenced to ten years in the camps. He was released early and returned on
June 26, 1932. On June 27, 1935 he was arrested for “participation in religious
anti-Soviet meetings”, was cast into Penza House of Preliminary Arrest, and
on September 21 was sentenced in accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11 to
five years’ exile I the north. He also accused that “he joined a group of
churchmen headed by [Fr. Pachomius] Ionov, took part in illegal meetings
and helped Ionov to hide in the underground”. Nothing more is known about
him.
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Priest Euthymius Fyodorovich Kulikov was born on December 22, 1876 in
the village of Shuty (now Savinki), Narovchatsky uyezd, Penza province. On
August 19, 1888 he finished his studies at the Shuty village school, and in 1895
– at the Narochatsky uyezd school. On May 20, 1895 he became a teacher in a
church-parish school in the village of Abashevo, Narovchatsky uyezd. On
June 18, 1905 he was ordained to the priesthood and sent to the village of
Nikolskoye, Navorchatsky uyezd, where he was also teacher of the Law of
God in the church-parish school. On October 11, 1910 he was appointed
uyezd missionary, and had great success in converting Old Ritualists to the
Orthodox Church. On October 27, 1914 he was transferred to the village of
Nikolayevka, Insarsky uyezd. On April 30, 1920 he was retired at his own
request because of illness, and worked for a while as a clerk. In 1917 he was
elected by the clergy of the Penza diocese to be a delegate at the Local Council
of the Russian Orthodox Church. On December 8, 1924 he was appointed to
serve in the village of Sergievo-Paleologovo, Penza uyezd. On October 11,
1926 he was retired at his own request. On March 10, 1931 he was arrested in
Penza, and on January 2, 1932 was convicted of “belonging to a branch of the
All-Union Church-Monarchist Organization, ‘The True Orthodox Church’”,
and was sentenced to five years in the camps. He was sent to
Medvezhyegorsk in Arkhangelsk province. On October 19, 1933 he was
conditionally released. On February 27, 1937 he was arrested for “organizing
services in his flat” and sentenced to five years in the camps. He was sent to
Karaganda, where, on February 4, 1942, he died.
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