Alexander Uksusov

Saint Alexander Uksusov (1874 to 1937) was a peasant and chairman of the church community in the village of Maryino, in the Yaroslavl region, and died in the Kuloylag camp on 6 December 1937. He is commemorated on 6 December, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, on 5 June with the saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, and on 1 November with the saints of the Arkhangelsk metropolis.

Alexander Alexandrovich Uksusov was born in 1874 into a devout peasant family. After school, like his parents, he worked the land. In the Soviet period he was an accountant at the collective farms of the Nekouz district. Being a deeply believing man, he fulfilled for several years the duties of chairman of the church community in the village of Maryino. In September 1937 he was arrested and accused, as a participant in a "church insurgent group", of "illegal gatherings, insurrectionary and defeatist agitation, slander of the party's policy and drawing farm workers into the religious community". At the interrogation he denied the anti-⁠Soviet character of the church gatherings and accused no one. He was sentenced to ten years in the camp and ended his martyr's path on 6 December 1937, in Kuloylag.