Vladimir Dzhurinsky

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky was an archpriest in Semirechye and was shot in 1920 at Verny (today Almaty), together with his wife, Euphrosyne.

He was born in 1885. He served in the village of Sergeyevka, Kastek district, Semirechye region, where he was rector. His wife, Euphrosyne Adamovna Dzhurinskaya, born in 1888, worked in the same village as a teacher in the parish school. In 1920 Father Vladimir and the priest's wife were shot in the town of Verny.

The saint is commemorated on 22 December and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.