Vladimir Vyatsky

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Vyatsky was a priest in the village of Krutovo, Yaroslavl region, and died in the Temnikov camp in Mordovia on 9 October 1938.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Vyatsky was born on 27 June 1879 in the village of Vyatskoe in the Danilov district, Yaroslavl province, in the family of a servant of the Church. He finished the village school, was a psalm-⁠reader, and was then ordained priest. In 1932 he served at the church in the village of Voskresenskoe, Danilov district. He was arrested, accused of hiding church valuables, and sentenced to three years of exile. On his return he served in the village of Krutovo, Pervomaisky district.

On 29 October 1937 he was arrested again, accused of having "organized a group of believers, among whom he carried on anti-⁠Soviet agitation, expressing terrorist intentions against the party and the government". He did not admit guilt. On 5 November 1937 the troika of the Yaroslavl regional NKVD sentenced him to ten years in a camp. He served the sentence in the Temnikov camp in Mordovia, where he died on 9 October 1938. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000.

The saint is commemorated on 9 October and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.