Alexander Polivanov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Polivanov (about 1878 to 1919) was a priest in the village of Altata, in the Achinsk district, Yenisei province, and was shot by the Bolsheviks on 30 March 1919. He is commemorated on 30 March, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, and on 11 June with the saints of the Krasnoyarsk metropolis. He was numbered among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia in August 2000.

He was born about 1878 into the family of the priest Peter Ivanovich Polivanov, of the Tomsk diocese. He finished the Tomsk seminary with the title of student and on 18 November 1898 was appointed psalm-⁠reader at the cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Mariinsk. He was teacher of singing at the church girls' school and member-⁠treasurer of the Mariinsk section of the diocesan school council. On 14 September 1902 he was ordained deacon, and the next day priest, to the place of rector of the Bogotol parish. Received into the Yenisei diocese, on 30 October 1910 he was appointed, at his own request, to the church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Altata, Achinsk district. He wrote a paper on measures to combat drunkenness among the people, which was heard at a pastors' assembly in the village of Nazarovskoe on 13 October 1915.

He was shot by the Bolsheviks on 30 March 1919, four versts from the village of Altata. The pastor's body was taken to Achinsk and buried with solemnity. He left a wife and four children, the eldest of whom was eleven.