Presbyter
Saint Martyr Anthony Popov was born in 1844 in the Perm province and served in the Ascension Church in the village of Suksunsky Zavod. Father Anatoly, who did not accept the Soviet power, openly condemned it in his sermons. In 1918, during a service, the Reds burst into the church, seized the priest, and, tearing off his vestments, led him barefoot through the snow to the execution site. Along with him, several others were captured. They were shot in the Stone Hollow, and the military commissar who led the execution boasted about it to the villagers. The body of the saint martyr was brought back to the village of Suksun and buried in the fenced area of the Ascension Church.
Later, club activities were organized in this church, and in the early 1980s, reconstruction of the club building into a House of Culture began. The construction was carried out over the graves of clergymen. In the autumn of 1986, an excavator dug up the priest's grave, which was looted by the builders, who took the found cross and Gospel, and the grave was leveled with a bulldozer. A pit for the foundation was later dug at this site, and the soil with the remains was dumped down the slope. Ancient marble tombstones collected from the cemetery were used by the builders for their purposes.
