Nikolay Yefimov

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Yefimov was a priest and is a saint venerated locally by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He was born on 3 February 1890 in the village of Verkhny Saltov, Kharkiv province. He was ordained in 1923 and served in the village of Ternova, Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region. On 25 December 1937 he was arrested and condemned to death. He was shot on 16 January 1938 at Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993, by decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the decision was taken on the local canonization of the ascetic in the Kharkiv diocese, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Slobozhanshchyna. The glorification service took place on the occasion of the visit to Kharkiv, on 3 and 4 July 1993, of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and all Ukraine, in the Annunciation cathedral of the city. Our sources do not give the date of his commemoration.