Timothy Ulyanov

Holy Hieromartyr Timothy Ulyanov, a priest, was born on 3 May 1900 in the village of Trubnikovo in the Kirsanov district of Tambov province, in the family of the peasant Konstantin Ulyanov. After the zemstvo school he entered service in 1917 as a psalm-⁠reader in a church. In 1931 he moved to Moscow region, in 1932 he was ordained a deacon and in the same year a priest, and served at the church of the Ascension in the village of Satino-⁠Russkoe, Podolsk district.

He was arrested on 26 November 1937 and held in Serpukhov. The chairman of the village council and the chairman of the collective farm were brought in as witnesses against him. The first said that the priest, who had come to learn about his obligations to the state, complained in front of strangers that Soviet power mocked the clergy by demanding taxes beyond their means. The second said that the priest urged the peasants to go to church, and that some collective farmers reproached the chairman for not letting them go and for putting them to work just when others were attending. Asked by the investigator what orientation he had followed at the time of his arrest, the priest answered that he followed the orientation of Patriarch Tikhon, and with that the interrogations ended.

On 1 December 1937 an NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years in a labour camp. Before being sent off he was moved to Taganka prison in Moscow. He died of hunger on 23 June 1940 in the second infirmary of the Nizhne-⁠Amur camp in Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk territory, and was buried in an unknown grave in the camp cemetery.

He is commemorated on 23 June, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, all in the new style.