Hieromartyr Priest Vladimir Sadovsky served until 1912 in the church of the village of Lugovskoye, Kopal District. In 1912 he was transferred to the stanitsa of Zaytsevskaya (Chilik) in the Verny District of the Semirechye Region. In 1921 the priest was executed by shooting under a sentence approved by the regional revolutionary tribunal. The verdict was based on accusations of “agitation against Soviet authority, possession of weapons, and failure to present documents.” Hieromartyr Vladimir was glorified among the saints by the Jubilee Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Sushkov (1876–1921) was a priest and hieromartyr. He was born in 1876 in the city of Verny and graduated from a parish school.
From 1893 he served as a sexton at the Turkestan Cathedral. From 1896 to 1899 he was a subdeacon and novice at the Bishop’s House. From 1899 to 1901 he served in the army in the city of Kopal, Semirechye Region, while serving as sexton at the Church of St. Nicholas for the military. From 1901 to 1906 he was a штатный церковник (staff church worker) of the same church.
From 1906 he served as psalm-reader at the St. Nicholas Church in Kokand. On January 3, 1907, he became psalm-reader at the Arasan–Kopal Church. From 1907 to 1916 he served as psalm-reader at the St. Nicholas Church in the stanitsa of Kopal and at the cathedral in the city of Lepsinsk.
In September 1916 he was ordained to the priesthood and in the same year was appointed rector of the Church of St. Michael in the village of Osinovka, Lepsinsk District. In 1921 he was executed by shooting.
He was canonized by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on July 17, 2001.
