Athanasius Zhulanov

Saint Athanasius Zhulanov (1890 to 1918) was a psalm-⁠reader in a church of the Perm province and was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918. He is commemorated on 7 February, with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, on 11 February with the saints of Yekaterinburg, on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis, and on 15 August.

He was born in 1890 into the family of the peasant Michael Zhulanov. After a school of reading and writing he served, between 1911 and 1913, as a church servant at the Transfiguration church at Pyskor, in the Solikamsk district of the Perm province. On 11 January 1914 he was appointed psalm-⁠reader at the same church, and on 14 January of that year he was tonsured to the stikharion. Before his martyrdom he served at the church of Saints Athanasius and Cyril in the village of Bisertskoe, in the Krasnoufimsk district of the Perm province. The psalm-⁠reader Athanasius Zhulanov was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918.