Nicholas Zamaraev

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Zamaraev was an archpriest at Vologda and died in a camp on 9 December 1937, at the age of sixty-⁠eight.

He was born on 25 May 1869 at Veliky Ustyug, in the family of a priest. Having his father's example before his eyes, he finished the Vologda seminary in 1890 and became a priest. At his arrest he was an archpriest and served at the Theotokos cemetery church in Vologda. He was arrested on 2 July 1937, on the charge of "anti-⁠Soviet agitation" and of being a "member of a counter-⁠revolutionary church-⁠monarchist group". The NKVD troika of the Northern Territory sentenced him to ten years in a labour camp. The priest, sixty-⁠eight years old, could not bear the conditions of detention and died in the places of confinement on 9 December 1937.

He is remembered on 9 December, on 11 July (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda, and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.