Victor Usov

Saint Victor Usov, hieromartyr, was an archpriest of the Russian Church in the Vyatka region, born in 1887 into a deacon's family and killed by a punitive detachment on 24 September 1918. He is commemorated on 24 September (11 September by the old calendar), in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia, in the Synaxis of the saints of Vyatka and in that of the new martyrs and confessors of Vyatka.

He was born in 1887 into a deacon's family. He finished the Nikolsk theological school and, in 1909, the Vologda seminary, and was appointed teacher at the Kuzyug parish school in the Nikolsk district, Vologda governorate. On 21 May 1910 he was ordained priest at the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Vokhma. On 1 September he was moved to the church of the Epiphany in the village of Staraya Yakhrenga (today the Podosinovets district of the Kirov region). From 1910 to 1913 he was teacher of the Law of God at the Konotovo zemstvo school, and in October 1913 he held the post of teacher of religion at the zemstvo school and parish school of Yakhrenga.

According to contemporaries, the priest of the Epiphany church, Victor Usov, was shot by a punitive detachment, together with Archpriest Nikolai Poddyakov, on 24 September 1918. The presumed place of his burial is the public garden near the church of the Mother of God in the settlement in the Kirov region.