Andrew Dalnikov

Saint Andrew Dalnikov, hieromartyr, was a priest of the Russian Church, born in 1883 and dead in the camp at Pishpek (today Bishkek) in 1920 or 1921. In the year 2000 he was numbered among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia.

He was born in 1883. In 1912 he was ordained deacon. In June 1913 he was appointed priest to a church then being built in the village of Alexandrovskoe, Verny district of the Semirechye region. From 1917 to 1918 he served at the church of the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in Verny. In 1918 he was appointed rector of the church of the Protection of the Mother of God in the stanitsa of Nadezhdinskaya, Verny district, in place of the rector killed on 5 May 1918.

He was arrested in September 1920 "for counter-⁠revolutionary activity, for not fulfilling grain procurement and for hiding the books of confessing Cossacks from the troika of the regional Cheka". He was sentenced, with his family, to imprisonment in the concentration camp at Pishpek, where he also died. The place of his burial is not known. He was rehabilitated on 14 April 1993.

In 2000, by decision of the Jubilee Council of Bishops, on the proposal of the Alma-⁠Ata diocese, he was numbered in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia.