Presbyter
On September 8, 1937, clergymen and Orthodox laypeople from the Gaginsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region were arrested, a total of ten people. They were accused of organizing a solemn service on July 6, which involved four priests and numerous believers. Despite the absence of political preaching, the service was deemed an anti-state event, as it distracted peasants from working in the collective farm. On September 17, 1937, eight people were sentenced to death and executed. Their names have been preserved in the investigative files: Priest Ioann Dmitrievich Romashkin, Priest Petr Ivanovich Lebedinsky, Priest Nikolai Alexandrovich Khvoschev, Priest Alexander Semenovich Nikolsky, peasants Alexander Ivanovich Blokhin, Petr Vasilyevich Lonskov, Stefan Semenovich Mityushin, and Vasily Kireevich Yezhov.
