Presbyter
Vladimir Evgenievich Sobolev was born in 1874 in the village of Dityatevo, Vologda province, in the family of a priest. He graduated from the Theological Seminary. On August 11, 1935, he was arrested, accused of 'counter-revolutionary agitation,' and sentenced by the Northern Regional People's Court to 10 years in a labor camp. In 1937, he was arrested in the Suslov section of the Siblag together with the holy martyr Archbishop Seraphim, the venerable martyrs Archimandrite Mina and German, and the holy martyrs Alexander Lebedev, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, and Alexander Andreev. The arrested were accused of participating in a 'counter-revolutionary group' conducting 'anti-Soviet agitation.' Priest Vladimir Sobolev did not admit his guilt. He was shot on November 4, 1937, by the verdict of the NKVD troika on October 28. He was glorified by the Archierarchical Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
