Valentin Kornienko

Holy Martyr Valentin Kornienko, by his full name Valentin Alexandrovich Kornienko, was born in 1873 in the town of Bobrinets, Elisavetgrad district, Kherson province. He was first arrested in 1921 for "mediation on behalf of speculators" and sentenced to ten years in a camp, but it is not known whether the sentence was carried out. In 1930-1931 he lived in Moscow and was a member of the parish council.

On 18 April 1937, on a charge of counter-⁠revolutionary activity, he was sent into exile in Kazakhstan for five years, to the settlement of Maiskoe in the Beskaragai district of Pavlodar region. The second arrest came in exile, on 25 November 1937. At the investigation he rejected the charge of "counter-⁠revolutionary work" and gave no testimony against others. By the sentence of the NKVD troika of East Kazakhstan of 1 December 1937 he was shot and buried in an unknown common grave. He was numbered among the saints by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 2 December and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.