Presbyter
Sergiy Kochurov was born on May 17, 1892, in the village of Derevyagino, Ryazan Province, into the family of the priest John Kochurov. In 1913 he graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary, and in 1915 he married the maiden Klavdia, the daughter of the priest Peter Solovyov. In the same year he was ordained first as a deacon and then as a priest.
During the years of persecution he served in the church of the village of Ukholovo. In 1929 the authorities confiscated his property for nonpayment of taxes. Father Sergiy transferred to the Church of the Prophet Elijah, but this church was also closed. In the summer of 1938 he began serving in the Trinity Church in the village of Istra. His wife and daughter remained in Sandyri, while he settled in a small guardhouse beneath the church.
In the spring of 1940 informers reported that he spoke about the repressions. On one occasion, one of the informers came to Father Sergiy’s home with a bottle of strong wine and tried to get the priest drunk in order to provoke him into a conversation about politics. Father Sergiy refused the wine and did not speak on political topics, and the visitor drank the entire bottle himself. Father Sergiy rejected all the accusations brought against him, referring to Holy Scripture.
On September 28, 1940, he was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. On October 5 he was sent to the Ivdel labor camp. He reposed on December 12, 1941, in the Bogoslov labor camp and was buried in an unknown grave.
