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economic department of the Vyatka diocesan school. From 1918 to 1924 he
worked as an accountant in a pedagogical institute. In 1924 he was appointed
protopriest in the Alexandrovsky cathedral in Vyatka. In September, 1929 he
was arrested and was cast into Vyatka isolator. On February 3, 1930 he was
convicted of “being a member of an illegal church-parish council” and of
“helping in the activity of a church-monarchist grouping”. In accordance with
article 58-11, he was sentenced to three (according to another source, five)
years’ exile in the north. In 1935 he was sentenced to three years’ exile in
Krasnoyarsk region. On March 22, 1938, while in administrative exile in the
village of Irba, Boguchan region, Krasnoyarsk region, he was arrested. On
April 14 he was convicted of being “a participant in a counter-revolutionary
political organization”, and on April 28 was shot in Kansk.
Priest Leonid Mikhailovich Yuferev was born in 1883 in Rostov. In 1903
he finished his studies at Vyatka theological seminary, and began to serve in
the village of Ivantsevo. In 1923 he was serving in Fileiki. In 1930 he was
sentenced to three years in the camps. He soon died, and was buried in
Vyatka.
Priest Gregory Zakharovich Popyvanov was born in 1881 in the village of
Marino, Vytka province. He served in the church of the village of Russkoye,
and from 1923 – in the Resurrection cathedral in Vyatka, where he played a
leading role in the struggle against renovationism. In 1930 he was arrested in
a group case. On February 3 he was sentenced to five years in the camps and
sent to a camp. In 1945 he was again arrested, and on April 5 was sentenced to
ten years in the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Basil Ivanovich Milovanov was born in 1890 in the village of
Naschekino, Bobrov uyezd, Voronezh province, and finished some
theological courses. In the middle of the 1920s he was exiled to Mari province.
In October, 1929 he was arrested for being “a participant in the counterrevolutionary
group of clergy and believers who follow Bishop Victor
(Ostrovidov)”, and on January 13, 1930 he was sentenced to three years in the
camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Alexander Terentyevich Shirokikh. He was born in 1893 in the
village of Martelevo, Glazov uyezd, Vyatka province, the son of a priest. In
1914 he was ordained to the diaconate, and in 1920 – to the priesthood,
serving in the St. Seraphim church in Vyatka. In September, 1929 he was
arrested because, “being a member of an illegal church-parish council, he
helped the activity of a church-monarchist grouping”. He was cast into
Vyatka isolator. On February 3, 1930 he was sentenced to three years in the
camps in accordance with article 58-11. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Michael Valentinovich Glushkov. He was born in 1894 in
Kotelnich, Vyatka province into a merchant’s family. He went to Vyatka real
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