Natalia Sundukova

Holy Martyr Natalia Sundukova (Natalia Ivanovna Sundukova), born in 1887 into a priest's family, is the first named among the eleven Christian women shot in Karlag on 11 January 1942. In the 1930s she was exiled to the city of Stalinabad in the Tajik SSR. There she was arrested again and sentenced to five years of deprivation of liberty. The charge said that she "was the organizer and leader of the counter-⁠revolutionary cell of the church and monarchist organization 'True Orthodox Church' in the city of Stalinabad, carried on anti-⁠Soviet counter-⁠revolutionary agitation... against the measures of Soviet power: elections to the soviets, Soviet holidays, the leaders of the Party and government". The camp report says: "Has not worked a single day, declaring categorically that she will not work for the antichrists."

In Karlag, with Natalia Ivanovna, ten other women were arrested, and a group case was opened against them, which said that those arrested "since arrival in Karlag, with counter-⁠revolutionary aims and without any grounds, systematically refused work in the camp, showing counter-⁠revolutionary sabotage... Besides, the accused carried on anti-⁠Soviet propaganda among the prisoners, using religious prejudices... They did not admit guilt." At the interrogation, all called themselves with one voice believing Christians and confessed that they did not go out to work because they held Soviet power to be that of the antichrist and did not wish to work for it. They were shot on 11 January 1942, and the place of their burial is not known. Natalia is commemorated on 11 January, the day of her confession, in the new style, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day).