Basil Zavgorodny

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Zavgorodny was a priest in the city of Gorky (today Nizhny Novgorod) and was shot in December 1937.

He was born in 1893 in the village of Khizhki, Konotop district, Chernigov province, and his full name was Basil Nazarovich. He served as priest at the church of the New Cemetery in Gorky. In 1937 he was arrested on the charge of belonging to a "church-⁠fascist, diversionary, terrorist and espionage" organization. He did not admit guilt.

The NKVD troika of the Gorky region decreed the death sentence on 2 December 1937, and the priest was shot in the same month and buried in an unknown common grave at the Bugrovsky cemetery in Gorky. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in 2000.

The saint is commemorated on 11 December and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 12 September (movable) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod.