Dimitri Konstantinovich Kuklin

He was born in 1870 in the city of Vologda. He graduated from the theological seminary.

In 1936, he served in the city of Veliky Ustyug, where he was arrested along with Archbishop Nikolai (Klimentev) of Veliky Ustyug and on September 3, 1936, by the decision of the Special Council (OSO) of the NKVD of the USSR, he was exiled to Kazakhstan for a term of 5 years "for participating in a counter-revolutionary group of clerics in the city of Veliky Ustyug." He served his exile in the village of Borodulikha in the Semipalatinsk region. In exile, he exchanged letters with Archbishop Nikolai (Klimentev), who was serving his exile in the city of Shymkent.

Protopriest Dimitri Kuklin was re-arrested on November 22, 1937, by the Belagach District Department of the NKVD. The indictment charged him with conducting religious rites and illegal gatherings "where issues of forming groups of believers and opening a church were discussed, and spreading anti-Soviet agitation against the collective farm system."

Protopriest Dimitri Kuklin did not admit to spreading anti-Soviet agitation.

On November 27, 1937, by the decision of the NKVD troika of the East Kazakhstan region, Protopriest Dimitri Kuklin was sentenced to execution by shooting.

The sentence was carried out on December 2, 1937.

Father Dimitri's name was included in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod on December 27, 2000.