Presbyter
Saint Martyr Gleb Semyonovich Apukhtin was born in 1885 in the city of Oboyan, Kursk province, into a peasant family. In 1902, he graduated from the Oboyan City School. He became a deacon before the revolution, and in 1925 he was ordained as a priest and began serving in the church of the village of Borovoe in the Voronezh province.
In 1929, he was arrested for the first time for 'failure to pay taxes' and served 5 years of exile in Kansk and the Kalinovsky district of the Kiev region. In 1934, he returned to his ministry in the village of Borovoe.
On March 28, 1935, he was arrested again, accused of 'anti-Soviet agitation' and 'insulting the leaders of the Soviet government.' He was sentenced to 10 years in a corrective labor camp, serving his sentence in the Michurinsk ITL, then in Volgolag, where he worked as a courier and refused to be an informer.
In 1937, he was arrested in the camp for 'refusing to work' and 'agitation among the prisoners.' On September 22, 1937, he was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment by the troika of the NKVD in the Yaroslavl region. On September 23 of the same year, he was executed by shooting.
