Vladimir Sokolov

Saint Vladimir Sokolov, hieromartyr, was a Moscow archpriest, born in 1883 into a priestly family and dead in the camp at Vorkuta on 9 September 1940. He was canonized in 2005 by the Russian Orthodox Church. He is commemorated on 9 September, the day of his death, which is 27 August by the old calendar.

He was born in the village of Alexandrovo in the Zvenigorod district, Moscow governorate, in the family of the priest John Georgievich Sokolov. In 1898 he finished the Zaikonospassky theological school and in 1904 the Moscow seminary. From 1905 to 1907 he was psalm-⁠reader at the church of Saint Mary Magdalene, attached to the department for small children of the Nicholas I Orphan Institute in Moscow. From 1905 he was teacher of singing at the parish school of the church of the Savior on Peski in Karetny Ryad. In 1907 he was moved as psalm-⁠reader to the church of Saint Pimen the Great at Novye Vorotniki. In 1924 he was ordained priest at the same church and then raised to the rank of archpriest. In 1936 he was moved to the church of Saints Peter and Paul at the Yauza gate, and in 1937 to the church of the Protection of the Mother of God on Lyshchikova Gora.

In April 1937 he was arrested and held in Butyrka prison in Moscow, where he was sentenced to five years of camp. He served the term in Ukhtpechlag at Chibyu and then in the Vorkuta camp. He died in detention on 9 September 1940 and was buried in an unknown grave at Vorkuta.