Natalia Ivanovna Sundukova

Born in 1887 in the village of Alyoshkino (Alyoshino) in the Pokhvistnevo district of the Kuybyshev region into a priest's family.

In the 1930s, she was exiled to the city of Stalinabad in the Tajik SSR.

On April 28, 1939, she was arrested in Stalinabad on charges of leading a "counter-revolutionary cell of the monarchist organization of the True Orthodox Church."

From the case materials:

"Sundukova was the organizer and leader of a counter-revolutionary cell of the monarchist organization 'True Orthodox Church' in the city of Stalinabad, conducted anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary agitation... Sundukova admitted her guilt in the charges brought against her... Her agitation was directed against the measures of the Soviet government: elections to the councils, Soviet holidays, the leaders of the party and government. She engaged in the same activities in the village of Alyoshino, from where she was exiled to Stalinabad under the aforementioned article..."

On January 6, 1940, she was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the decree of the Supreme Court of the Tajik SSR in Stalinabad.

On March 9, 1941, she arrived at the NKVD Karlag. As stated in the characterization, "...she did not work a single day, categorically declaring that she was not recruited to work at Karlag and would not work for the antichrists."

On July 11, 1941, she was arrested in the camp on charges of "anti-Soviet propaganda among the prisoners and sabotage." Along with her, ten other women were arrested: Natalia Vasilyeva, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokiya Nazina, Anna Popova, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Borovskaya, Evdokiya Guseva, Euphrosyne Denisova, and Agrippina Kiseleva. They were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. All of them were part of the group case "Sundukova N.I. and others, Karlag, 1941," which stated that the arrested "from the moment of arrival at the NKVD Karlag, for counter-revolutionary purposes, systematically refused to work in the camp without any grounds, exhibiting counter-revolutionary sabotage... Along with this, the accused conducted anti-Soviet propaganda among the prisoners, using religious prejudices... " During the interrogation, they all unanimously identified themselves as believing Christians, refused to testify, and did not admit their guilt. In the indictment, Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, and Agrippina Kiseleva were named as the organizers of the "counter-revolutionary sabotage."

On September 29, 1941, the permanent session of the Karaganda Regional Court at Karlag sentenced all the arrested to execution by shooting.

All of them were shot on January 11, 1942, and buried in an unknown common grave.

On April 30, 1998, Natalia Sundukova was rehabilitated by the prosecutor of the Karaganda region.

She was canonized as a saint and new martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Jubilee Bishops' Council in August 2000 for general church veneration.