Georgy Nikolaevich Yurenev

Georgy Nikolaevich Yurenev was born in 1887 in the city of Vyatka into a noble family. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University.

In 1920, he was subjected to administrative exile. He served as a judge in the city of Vitebsk.

He was arrested in the city of Kalinin on March 15, 1936. On August 27, 1936, he was sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD of the USSR to 3 years in labor camps and sent to the Karaganda labor camp (KarLag), where he worked as an economist.

He was arrested in KarLag on November 10, 1937.

Georgy Yurenev was accused of "while serving his sentence in KarLag, being a member of a counter-revolutionary group known as the 'True Orthodox Church,' participating in periodic gatherings of this group, spreading provocative rumors among prisoners, and engaging in counter-revolutionary agitation."

By the decision of the troika of the NKVD for the Karaganda region on November 20, 1937, Georgy Yurenev was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment – execution by shooting. The sentence was carried out on the same day.

He was buried in an unmarked mass grave.

He was glorified by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.