John Malinovsky

Holy Hieromartyr John Malinovsky, a protopresbyter, in the world Ivan Matveevich Malinovsky, was born in 1881 in the village of Poymichye, Yaroslavl province. After the Theological Seminary he was ordained priest and served at the church in the village of Novye Gorki, in the Lezhnevo district of the Ivanovo region. Later he was raised to the rank of protopresbyter. In the 1930s the persecution of the Church touched him. Accused of "counterrevolutionary agitation", he was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. The place of exile was the settlement of Maiskoe, in the Beskaragay district of the Pavlodar region, where the priest, no longer very young, had to work in hard conditions in a mine.

On 25 November 1937 Father John was arrested in the place of exile. He was put into the group file of "Archimandrite Gregory (Rebeza) and others, Pavlodar, 1937". When the investigator asked him what counterrevolutionary activity he had carried on in exile, he answered: "While I was in exile in the settlement of Maiskoe I did no counterrevolutionary work and held no services." On 1 December 1937 the troika of the UNKVD of the East Kazakhstan region sentenced Protopresbyter John Malinovsky to the supreme penalty, shooting. The sentence was carried out at two o'clock in the night, on 2 December 1937. On 20 August 2000 he was glorified among the saints at the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church.

The Church commemorates him on 2 December, the day of his death, in the new style, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.