Sergey Alexandrovich Brednikov

He was born in 1888 in the city of Verny, Semirechensk region (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).

From 1907 to 1914, he served as a psalmist.

In 1915, he was ordained as a priest. He served in the church of the city of Karakol in Kyrgyzstan.

In 1930, he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years of exile, which he served in the city of Taldy-Kurgan. Unlike many exiled clergy for whom the climate of Kazakhstan was unfamiliar, Father Sergey was well adapted to the conditions of exile as a native.

After the end of his term, he continued to live in Taldy-Kurgan, zealously fulfilling his pastoral duties.

On November 24, 1937, he was arrested again and accused of "conducting anti-Soviet agitation, spreading counter-revolutionary rumors."

On December 1, he was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment by the troika of the NKVD of the Alma-Ata region. On December 10, 1937, Hieromartyr Sergey was executed.

He was included in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on December 27, 2000.

For a long time, the burial place of the saint remained unknown. His relics were discovered at the end of 2013, 40 km from Almaty, at the former NKVD polygon "Zhanalyk," near the church in honor of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt in the village of Zhetygen, next to the holy remains of Hieromartyrs Bishop Porfiry (Gulevich) and Priest Simeon Afonkin.