Martyr Vladimir was born in 1885 in the village of Konobeevo, Bronnitsky district of Moscow province. He finished rural school, got married, and had four children. Drafted in 1914 for World War I, he was severely wounded and lost an arm. After the revolution, he engaged in the production of buttons and served as a parish elder in the Trinity Church. In 1930, his property was confiscated, and he was arrested, sentenced to five years of imprisonment and five years of exile. Released in April 1930, he returned to the village and resumed his duties as an elder, later becoming a psalmist.
On January 19, 1938, during the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. Vladimir Egorovich rejected the accusations of counter-revolutionary activity. On September 19, 1938, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. Martyr Vladimir Ushkov passed away in custody on March 21, 1942, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
