Konstantin Vasilyevich Aksyonov

He was born in 1888 in the city of Tashkent.

On November 3, 1923, the Collegium of the OGPU USSR sentenced him to three years in labor camps. Details of his imprisonment are unknown.

In 1929, he was sentenced by the Special Meeting of the Collegium of the OGPU USSR to three years of exile in the Northern Krai under Article 58-10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. He served his exile in the city of Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk Oblast.

After his release, he served as a priest in the city of Mirzoyan.

In 1937, he was arrested by the Mirzoyan NKVD, accused of "systematically conducting counter-revolutionary defeatist agitation among the population, associating with the counter-revolutionary group of Metropolitan Joseph Petrovykh, and speaking about the poor living conditions in the USSR." He did not plead guilty to the charges under Article 58-10.

On October 20, 1937, he was sentenced to execution by the troika of the UNKVD of the South Kazakhstan region.

He was executed on October 22, 1937, in the city of Mirzoyan, South Kazakhstan region.

On April 28, 1989, he was rehabilitated (for the 1937 repressions) under the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 16, 1989.

In August 2000, he was canonized as a saint among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Bishops' Council for veneration by the entire Church.