Vladimir Fokin

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Fokin was a priest in the village of Novo-⁠Elovskoe, Achinsk district, Yenisei province, and was shot by Red partisans on 24 January 1919.

In 1895 he served as psalm-⁠reader at the church of the Prophet Elijah in Beloyarsk, in 1908 as deacon in the village of Solgonskoe, and in 1915 as priest at Novo-⁠Elovskoe. He was a zealous pastor, a warm and responsive man, held in esteem by his parishioners and by all who knew him. On 24 January 1919 he was seized by the Red partisans of Shchetinkin's detachment and shot a kilometer and a half from the village of Lodochnaya. On his body, besides gunshot wounds, there were three bayonet wounds. Since the region was in Bolshevik hands, the body was taken out secretly at night from Novo-⁠Elovskoe and carried to Achinsk, then occupied by the White army, where the funeral service was served. He was buried beside the church of the Kazan icon in Achinsk, and almost the whole town took part in the burial.

The saint is commemorated on 24 January and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 11 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Krasnoyarsk Metropolis.