Presbyter
Saint Vladimir was born on June 29, 1874, in Moscow, in the family of priest Alexander Proferansov. In 1898, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and began serving as a teacher. In 1902, he was appointed as a psalmist at the Georgievskaya Church on Lubyanka. From 1915, he performed the duties of a starosta at the Georgievskaya Church, and in 1916, he was ordained as a deacon. In 1920, he was ordained as a priest. Since 1923, he served as secretary to His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon. On January 9, 1932, he was summoned for interrogation and offered cooperation with the OGPU, to which he did not agree. On February 8, 1932, he was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. On March 14, 1932, he was sentenced to three years of exile in Semipalatinsk. In 1935, he returned to Mozhaisk, where he was arrested again on December 5, 1937. He was accused of counter-revolutionary activities. On December 9, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Vladimir Proferansov was shot on December 15, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
