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The clergyman Illarion Ilyich Isayev was serving in the village of
Yashkino, Sorochinsky region, Orenburg province. In 1931 he was arrested,
and on August 8 he was sentenced to five years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
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The clergyman Paul Nikolayevich Kurbatov was born in 1885, and served
in Kukma settlement, Kvarkensky region, Orenburg province. In 1930 he was
arrested, and on September 9 was sentenced to three years in the camps.
Nothing more is known about him.
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The clergyman Michael Alexandrovich Koschlovsky was born in 1875 and
served in Gorodische, Orenburg region.In 1931 he was arrested in
Tashkonksy, Ileksky region, and on Apri 14, 1931 was sentenced to two years
in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
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Monk Macarius (Mikhailovich Karpov) was born in 1876 and lived in a
wood near the Rodnikovsky settlement, Ileksky region, Orenburg province.
There, in 1931, he was arrested, and in April, 1931 was sentenced to five years
in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
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In the spring of 1929 the church on the hill Mayak in Orenburg, where
Priest Basil Moiseyevich Kurdyukov was serving, was closed and turned into
an electricity station. Then Fr. Basil and Priest Ivan Nikolayevich Mironov
began to conduct services in Fr. Basil’s flat. The NKVD considered this to be a
crime and ascribed to Fr. Basil a whole anti-Soviet organization consisting of
four groups: Orenburg, Belozersk, Putyatin and Nizhne-Arkhangelsk. 29
people were arrested in connected with this affair, among them: G.E. Sviridov,
M.E. Nikulochkin, A.M. Lernikov in Putyatin; P.F. Igonin, F.P. Tuchin, A.Y.
Teplyakov, K.A. Nasekin in Nizhne-Arkhangelsk; T.A. Safronov, I.A.
Mishnev, N.M. Lomakin in Belozersk; and others.
On April 19, 1930, in Orenburg, in “the Case of Fr. Basil Kudryukov, Fr.
John Mironov and others (29 persons), Orenburg, 1930”, an OGPU troika for
the Middle Volga region sentenced Fr. Basil and Fr. Ivan to be shot; four
people received ten years in the camps; and the remaining twenty-three –
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