Evdokia Nazina

Holy Martyr Evdokia Nazina was one of the eleven women shot in the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan on 11 January 1942. She is counted among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

Killed with her were Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Anna Borovskaya, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Popova, Evdokia Guseva, Euphrosyne Denisova, Agrippina Kiseleva and Natalia Vasilieva. Natalia Sundukova, born in 1887, a priest's daughter, had been exiled and then sentenced to five years at Stalinabad, as organizer of a church cell; in the camp she had declared that she would not work for antichrists. Natalia Siluyanova, also a priest's daughter, had been sentenced for agitating against elections and for allegedly singing the tsarist anthem. The other nine women came from peasant families. The sources give no details of Evdokia Nazina's life.

In the camp, in a group case, the eleven were accused of systematically refusing work and conducting anti-⁠Soviet propaganda on religious grounds. At the interrogation they together called themselves believing Christians, said that they did not wish to work for a power they considered the antichrist's, and did not admit guilt. All were shot on 11 January 1942, and the place of their burial is unknown.

She is commemorated on 11 January and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).