Presbyter
Saint Martyr Joseph Ivanovich Arkharov was born in 1874 in the Moscow province. His father was the owner of a leather factory. Joseph Ivanovich worked in the leather industry until 1930, when he accepted the priesthood. Soon he was arrested and sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment, after which he received a new sentence of 3 years in a labor camp. From 1936 to 1937, he was in the Karlag of the NKVD in Kazakhstan.
While in the camp, he was arrested based on a denunciation that spoke of his love for the Church and that he advised reading the Gospel or the Psalter. In the indictment, the investigator noted that Arkharov systematically conducted counter-revolutionary agitation among the prisoners and spread provocative rumors about an imminent war and the downfall of Soviet power. On September 21, 1937, Saint Martyr Joseph Arkharov was executed by shooting.
