Natalia Fedorovna Kopytina

Born on August 25, 1885, in the village of Paroy (Poroy), Kuymanskaya Volost, Lebedyansky Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, in a peasant family.

Until 1937, she managed an individual household.

Following Stalin's 1937 decree on mass arrests, NKVD officers interrogated witnesses in the village of Paroy. The witnesses testified that there was a counter-revolutionary group of churchgoers in their village who, in addition to frequently attending church, gathered in homes where they sang church hymns and read the Gospel. They also met in the forest to sing church hymns and then engaged in anti-Soviet agitation, complaining about the living conditions created by the communists.

On December 17, 1937, the authorities arrested the entire group of believers in the village, including Natalia Fedorovna. She was accused of being "an active member of a counter-revolutionary church group and conducting anti-Soviet agitation among the population using religious prejudices." Natalia Fedorovna was interrogated on the same day. During the investigation, she was held in the Dankov prison and was part of the group case "The Case of Peasant Church Members Gamayunov I.S., Ilyin V.V., and others, Ryazan Region, 1937." She did not plead guilty.

On December 30, 1937, the NKVD Troika found her guilty of "membership in a counter-revolutionary church group, anti-Soviet and anti-collective farm agitation aimed at undermining labor discipline; expressing hatred for the Soviet government," and sentenced her to eight years in a labor camp. She was sent to the Akmolinsk division of KarLag.

In 1942, she was arrested in the camp and was part of the group case "The Case of Evdokia (Andrianova) and 11 prisoners, Akmolinsk, 1942."

On April 20, 1942, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Karaganda Regional Court at the Akmolinsk division of KarLag sentenced her to execution.

She was executed in April 1942, and the burial place is unknown.

On May 30, 1989, she was rehabilitated by the prosecutor of the Lipetsk region for the 1937 repressions.

On April 14, 1993, she was rehabilitated under the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the 1942 repressions.

She was canonized among the saints at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 upon the recommendation of the Almaty Diocese.