Vladimir Sobolev

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Sobolev was a priest in Vologda province and was shot on 4 November 1937 in the camp of Sibirlag, together with a group of clergy.

Vladimir Evgenievich Sobolev was born in 1874 in the village of Dityatevo in the Vologda district, in the family of a priest. He finished the seminary. On 11 August 1935 he was arrested, accused of "counter-⁠revolutionary agitation" and sentenced by the Northern regional court to ten years in a camp. In 1937, being in the Suslovo section of Sibirlag, he was arrested again, together with Archbishop Seraphim Samoylovich, Archimandrite Mina Shelaev and Herman Polyansky, and the priests Alexander Lebedev, Basil Bogoyavlensky and Alexander Andreev. He was charged with belonging to a "counter-⁠revolutionary group" that had carried on "anti-⁠Soviet agitation". He did not admit guilt. The NKVD troika sentenced him on 28 October, and on 4 November 1937 he was shot.

He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000. He is commemorated on 4 November and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 29 August (movable) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kuzbass.