Presbyter
Ivan Piramidin was born in 1877 in the family of a priest in the village of Ivanisovo, Vladimir province. After graduating from the Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a priest in 1904 to the church of the village of Gruzdeyevo. On October 21, 1930, he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation among the peasants and was sentenced to 3 years in a corrective labor camp with confiscation of property.
He was arrested again on March 21, 1937, for counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan. On November 25, 1937, he was arrested again in the case of “Archimandrite Grigory (Rebeza).” On December 1 of the same year, the NKVD troika issued a decision for execution. Priest Ivan Piramidin accepted a martyr's death on December 2, 1937. The place of his burial is unknown.
