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Soviet power”. On August 14, 1932 he was sentenced to three years’ exile in
the north. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Leonid Vasilyevich Nesmelov was born in 1883 in the village of
Kiknur, Mari province, and went to Vyatka theological seminary. As priest
and dean, he served in Kotelnich. He was disenfranchised. He was accused of
“directing the activity of the church-monarchist organization, the True
Orthodox Church” and of “conducting counter-revolutionary work, pursuing
as a final aim the preparation of conditions for the overthrow of Soviet
power”. On August 14, 1932 he was sentenced to three years in the camps and
sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Ivan Vladimirovich Nikonov was born in 1872 in the village of
Velikorechye, Yaransk uyezd, Vyatka province into the family of a priest. He
went to Vyatka theological seminary. He was disenfranchised. In 1921 he was
arrested for antisoviet activity, and sntenced to three years in the camps
conditionally. After the arrest of Fr. Basil Poptsov he became the rector of his
church in the village of Lyumpanur. In 1932 he was arrested in the village of
Shapta, Kiknur region and accused of “directing the activity of the churchmonarchist
organization, the True Orthodox Church” and of “conducting
active counter-revolutionary work, pursuing as his final aim the preparation
of conditions for the overthrow of Soviet power”. On August 14 he was
sentenced to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more is known about
him.
Priest Michael Ippolitovich Strelnikov was born in 1876 in the village of
Verkhoizhskoye, Yaransk uyezd, Vyatka province, and went to Vyatka
theological seminary. He was disenfranchised. In 1931 he was under
investigation. In 1932 he was arrested in the village of Yefimenki, Arbazh
region and accused of “directing the activity of the church-monarchist
organization, the True Orthodox Church” and of “conducting counterrevolutionary
work, pursuing as his final aim the preparation of conditions
for the overthrow of Soviet power”. On August 14 he was sentenced to three
years in the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Ivan Savvateyevich Starodubtsev was born in 1886 in the village of
Petrovskoye, Yaransk uyezd. He was disenfranchised. In 1932 he was arrested
in the village of Izh, Pizhansk region and accused of “directing the activity of
the church-monarchist organization, the True Orthodox Church” and of
“conducting counter-revolutionary work, pursuing as his final aim the
preparation of conditions for the overthrow of Soviet power”. On August 14
he was sentenced to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more is known
about him.
Priest Ivan Petrovich Kurochkin was born in 1894 in the village of Yaran-
Muchazh, Yaransk uyezd, and went to Vyatka theological seminary. He was
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