Alexander Belyakov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Belyakov (1890 to 1937) was a priest from Nizhny Novgorod and was shot on 21 August 1937. He is commemorated on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, on 12 September with the saints of Nizhny Novgorod, and on 4 October.

The priest Alexander Nikolaevich Belyakov was born in 1890 at Nizhny Novgorod. He was arrested on 6 August 1937, during the mass repressions against the clergy of Nizhny Novgorod, and charged with taking part in a "counter-⁠revolutionary church group". Father Alexander did not admit guilt and refused to testify against others. He was shot on the sentence of 21 August 1937, the same day. He was numbered among the saints by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.