Leonid Polikarpov

Holy Hieromartyr Leonid Polikarpov was a priest in the village of Kukmor, in the Mamadysh district, and was shot on 28 October 1918 together with seven other residents of the village.

The extraordinary investigative commission of the Mamadysh district Soviet condemned them for allegedly organizing a defence band against Red Army soldiers. The facts did not justify so harsh a penalty: a Red detachment had entered Kukmor without a warrant, taken from private traders goods worth 2,175 roubles and given them to the village cooperative, taking from it in return tobacco, cigarettes and other products. Earlier, Father Leonid had been a church reader at the church of Holy Wisdom in Sviyazhsk, alongside Protopresbyter Constantine Dalmatov.

He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).