Alexis Tatarinov

Saint Alexis Tatarinov, hieromartyr, also called Alexis Slobodskoy, was a priest, born in 1885 in the Kharkiv region and shot at Kharkiv on 9 December 1937. He is venerated as a local saint in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, in the diocese of Kharkiv. His commemoration is on 19 May, in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Sloboda land.

He was born on 30 March 1885 in the village of Kunie, north of the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region. It is known that he finished the seminary. At the time of his arrest, on 3 December 1937, he was a priest in the settlement of Gnidovka, a suburb of Izyum. The investigation file mentions the pastor's family: his wife, Pelagia, and his son, Anatoly. Accused of subversive activity against the Soviet power, Father Alexis was sentenced to death on 9 December. The sentence was carried out the same day, 9 December 1937, at Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993 the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine decided on his local canonization in the diocese of Kharkiv. The service of glorification took place during the visit to Kharkiv, on 3 and 4 July 1993, of the primate of the Church, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and all Ukraine, in the cathedral of the Annunciation.