Anna Vodolanova

Holy Martyr Anna Vodolanova (Anna Antonovna Vodolanova) was born in 1890 in the Slavyanoserbsk district of the Ekaterinoslav province. She was shot in 1942 in the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan. She was numbered among the holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in 2000, for veneration throughout the whole Church. She is commemorated on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

In 1935 she was arrested and sentenced for "anti-⁠Soviet activity", which in fact consisted in the confession of the Christian faith, to six years in a labour camp. In 1942, in the Akmolinsk section of the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan, where she was serving her sentence, she was arrested again, and on 20 April she was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out soon afterwards. The day of her martyrdom is 7 (20) April 1942.