Zinovy Eustafyevich Sutormin

He was born on October 30, 1864, in a peasant family. He graduated from the Omsk Central Medical Assistant School. He served as a senior medical assistant in the 3rd Military Department of the Siberian Cossack Army.

On February 14, 1899, he was appointed as a psalmist.
On February 21 of the same year, he was ordained a deacon by his brother-in-law, Bishop Sergius (Petrov) of Omsk and Semipalatinsk, to the Resurrection Church in the city of Semipalatinsk (now Semey). He served as a deacon-medical assistant at the Central Stan (Zarechnaya Slobodka, Semipalatinsk) of the Kyrgyz Spiritual Mission of the Omsk Diocese.

On July 11, 1911, he was ordained a priest to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Ulbinsky (Sogra), Zmeinogorsky Uyezd (now within the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk). He completed the construction of the village stone church, which was consecrated on June 30, 1913.

After the death of his wife in 1912, he raised their four younger children alone. Father Zinovy was frequently sought for medical assistance, which he never refused to provide.

After 1917, the Ulbinsky church was closed.

In 1919, Father Zinovy agreed to transfer to a poor parish in the village of Georgievka, Semipalatinsk region, as the priest serving there, burdened with a large family, requested a transfer to a wealthier parish.

In January 1920, he was visiting his son Ivan in the village of Shemonaikha. On January 23, the village was occupied by a detachment of Red Army soldiers, who immediately began searches and arrests. Father Zinovy was arrested along with other villagers. All the arrested were sentenced to death and taken out of the village. Father Zinovy was beheaded while taking off his boots and buried in a common unmarked grave in the forest near Shemonaikha. His son, daughter-in-law, and their 5-year-old child were also killed alongside him.

He was glorified as a saint and included in the assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church in August 2000 by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.