Simeon Oskin

Saint Simeon Kirillovich Oskin, hieromartyr, was a priest in the Kharkiv diocese and received the martyr's death by shooting on 5 September 1937, during the Soviet persecution. He is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and commemorated on 19 May.

He was born on 24 May 1880 in the village of Peschanoe in the Kharkiv governorate. After the revolution of 1917 he was ordained priest. Around 1937 he lived in Pechenegi in the Kharkiv region, but was not serving. He was arrested on 10 June 1937 and sentenced to death. He was shot on 5 September 1937 in Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church decided on his local canonization in the Kharkiv diocese, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Sloboda land. The service of glorification took place on 3 and 4 July 1993 in the Annunciation cathedral of Kharkiv, during the visit of Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

His canonization is local and not that of the whole Orthodox Church.