Michael Sushkov

Holy Hieromartyr Michael Sushkov, a priest, was born in 1876 in the town of Verny in the Semirechye region (now Almaty). He was named Mikhail Mikhailovich Sushkov. He finished the parish school and from 1893 was sexton of the cathedral in Turkestan. Between 1896 and 1899 he was subdeacon and novice at the bishop's house, and between 1899 and 1901 he did military service in the town of Kopal in the Semirechye region, where he was also sexton of the military church of Saint Nicholas. In 1901 he entered the staff of this church and was sexton there until 1906, then became reader at the church of Saint Nicholas in Kokand. From 3 January 1907 he passed to the Arasan-⁠Kopal church, and until 1916 he was reader at the church of Saint Nicholas in the stanitsa of Kopal in the Semirechye region, and at the cathedral in the town of Lepsinsk.

In September 1916 Michael Sushkov was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Osinovka, Lepsinsk district. In 1921 Archpriest Michael Sushkov, who had long served the Church, was shot by the Bolsheviks. The page gives no further details of his death. He is commemorated on 16 September, in the new style, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day).