Vladimir Pankin

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Pankin was a priest in the village of Blagoveshchenka, in northern Kazakhstan, and was shot by the Bolsheviks on 6 April 1920.

Vladimir Vasilievich Pankin was born in 1884 in Nizhny Novgorod province, in a peasant family. He graduated from the second-⁠class church teachers' school and worked for a time as a teacher. On 26 August 1912 he was ordained deacon for the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Kopyevsky, Tara district, Tobolsk province. Later he was ordained priest and served at the church of the Transfiguration in the village of Blagoveshchenka. He was shot by the godless Bolsheviks on 6 April 1920 and buried in an unknown place. The Council of Bishops of the Russian Church glorified him in August 2000.

The saint is commemorated on 6 April and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.