Ludmila Vladimirovna Petrova

Ludmila Vladimirovna Petrova was born on February 26, 1879, in the city of Rostov-Yaroslavsky into the family of a prison warden.

In 1930, she was sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD in Rostov to three years of exile in the Northern Territory.

In 1936, she was again sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD in Rostov to three years of exile in Kazakhstan.

On July 10, 1937, she was arrested by the Merken District Department of the NKVD for "belonging to a counter-revolutionary group of church members in the South Kazakhstan region."

She was held in the prison of the city of Chimkent.

On August 23, 1937, the session of the NKVD troika of the South Kazakhstan region resolved:

Petrova L. V. to be executed.

The sentence was carried out on September 27, 1937.

The execution took place near the city of Chimkent in an area called Fox Ravine, where the burial also took place.

In August 2000, she was canonized as a saint in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and Kazakhstan by the Hierarchical Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for general church veneration.