Ioann Petrovich Piramidin

Ioann Petrovich Piramidin was born in 1877 in the village of Ivanisovo, Pereslavl Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate. He graduated from the Theological Seminary.

He was ordained as a priest in 1904.

In 1930, he served in the church of the village of Gruzdevo, Yuzhsky District, Ivanovo Industrial Region. When the church faced the threat of closure due to heavy taxation, Father Ioann collected funds from the parishioners to pay the tax.

On October 21, 1930, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" and imprisoned in the city of Yuzha.

On November 27, 1930, he was sentenced by the Special Troika at the OGPU Plenipotentiary Representation in the Ivanovo Industrial Region to 3 years of labor camps. After his release from the camp, he lived in the village of Boykovo, Lezhnevsky District, Ivanovo Industrial Region.

On March 21, 1937, for "counter-revolutionary work," he was exiled to Kazakhstan for 5 years. He lived in the village of May (Mayskoye), Beskaragai District, East Kazakhstan Region, and worked at the May mine.

On November 25, 1937, he was arrested on charges of "counter-revolutionary work." He did not plead guilty.

On December 1, 1937, he was sentenced by the Special Troika at the NKVD of East Kazakhstan Region to execution by shooting.

He was buried in an unknown mass grave.

He was glorified by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.