Martyr Dmitry Mikhailovich Morozov was born in 1875 in the village of Melnikovo, Yaran district, Vyatka province. From 1911 to 1914, he served in the army. On November 27, 1936, he was arrested on charges of participating in a 'counter-revolutionary group of clergymen.' On March 27, 1937, he was sentenced by a special council of the NKVD of the USSR to 5 years in a labor camp. He was held in prisons in the cities of Yaran and Kirov, later in the city of Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan region. On May 16, 1937, he was transferred to the Ortauskoe department of the Karaganda labor camp.
On August 7, 1937, a report was submitted to the authorized representative of Karlag regarding Dmitry Morozov and Peter Bordan, stating that they were not working and were engaged in agitation, considering the Soviet power to be anti-Christian. On August 22, 1937, the martyrs Bordan Peter Vasilievich and Dmitry Mikhailovich Morozov were arrested. On August 31, 1937, they were sentenced to execution and were shot on September 3. The martyrs were glorified in the ranks of saints by the Archierarchical Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
