Ilya Yakovlevich Berezovsky

Ilya Yakovlevich Berezovsky was born on July 20, 1890, in the village of Glyadenskaya, Tomsk Uyezd, Tomsk Governorate (now the village of Glyaden, Moshkovsky District, Novosibirsk Region).

He served as a priest in the village of Moshkovo in the Novosibirsk Region.

In 1933, he was arrested by the Moshkov OGPU and exiled to Kazakhstan, to the village of Chemolgan (now Ushkonyr), Kaskelen District, Almaty Region.

On December 14, 1937, he was arrested again by the Kaskelen Department of the NKVD. In the criminal case, he is listed as "a priest of the Orthodox Church, unemployed at the time of arrest, without a permanent residence." He was accused of "systematic anti-Soviet propaganda, terrorist sentiments against the Soviet government and communists, and agitation among the population of Chemolgan for the creation of a church community and the opening of a church." He did not plead guilty to the charges.

On February 1, 1938, the NKVD troika of the Almaty Region sentenced him to death by shooting.

He was executed on February 3, 1938. He was buried in a common unmarked grave.

On April 11, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the General Prosecutor of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the repressions of 1938.

He was glorified as a saint and included in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.