Basil Bova

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Bova, a priest, was born in 1877 in the town of Kurgan, Tobolsk province. He finished the theological school, and from 1909 to 1914 served as psalm-⁠reader at the church in the village of Novouralskoe, Akmolinsk region. In 1915 he was transferred as psalm-⁠reader to the church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Petropavlovsk. In 1920 he was ordained priest and served in the village of Poludino in northern Kazakhstan. From 1929 he lived in Petropavlovsk and attended the church of Saint Nicholas, then the stronghold of Orthodoxy in the city.

On 6 November 1937 he was arrested, accused of "counter-⁠revolutionary activity". He did not admit guilt. He was shot on 4 December 1937 by decision of the troika of the NKVD of North Kazakhstan region of 14 November 1937. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 5 December and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.