John Menkov

Holy Martyr John Menkov, a psalmist, in the world Ivan Nikitich Menkov, was born in 1884. He was psalmist at the church in the village of Kara-⁠Balta, Pishpek district, Semirechye region of Turkestan, in the same church in which Father Alexander Yuzefovich also served. In the time of the establishment of Soviet power in Semirechye, the psalmist Ivan Menkov was shot on 25 September 1920 in the city of Verny (Alma-⁠Ata). The Azbyka page gives no further details.

The Church commemorates him on 26 December, in the new style, on 8 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Metropolitan District of Central Asia, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.