Nikolai Legeida

Holy New Martyr Nikolai Legeida was a priest and died in a camp on 12 February 1940. He was born in 1895 at Novgorodka and graduated from the Odessa theological seminary in 1916. He served as a priest in the churches of the villages of Mitrofanivka and Varvarivka, in the town of Novgorodka (the Holy Trinity church) and in the village of Kolomna in the Vyshny Volochyok district of Tver region.

He was arrested on 9 February 1938 and sentenced, under article 58-10 of the RSFSR criminal code, to ten years in labour camps. He served his term in the Sibirlag camp, where he died on 12 February 1940. He was rehabilitated by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 16 January 1989. His day of commemoration is 12 February, the date of his death (new style).