Ioann Vasilyevich Znamensky

Ioann Vasilyevich Znamensky was born on March 8, 1868, in the village of Vladykino, Velsky Uyezd, Vologda Governorate, into a priest's family.

In 1882, he graduated from Belozersk Theological School of the Novgorod Diocese.

In 1887, he was appointed psalmist at the Trinity Church in the village of Varnakushki, Belozersk Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate.

In 1898, he moved to Turkestan and was assigned to the Protection Church in the village of Pokrovskoye, Przhevalsky Uyezd, Semirechensk Region.

In 1902, he was transferred to the St. George Church in the village of Tokmak, Pishpek Uyezd.

In 1903, he was ordained a priest to the church in the village of Georgievskoye of the same uyezd and appointed as a law teacher at the parish school.

In 1904, he was transferred to the Church of the Archangel Michael in the stanitsa of Golubevskaya (Borokhudzir), Jarkent Uyezd, where he also served as a law teacher.

In 1906, he was transferred back to the village of Georgievskoye.

On March 21, 1923, he was executed by the Bolsheviks in the village of Taldy-Kurgan (now the city of Taldykorgan, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan). He was buried in an unknown grave.

He was canonized as a saint of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod on July 17, 2001, for general church veneration.