Ioann Ivanovich Glazkov

Ioann Ivanovich Glazkov was born in 1884 in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, into a working-class family. He served as a priest in the village of Kalyusheva, Sarapul District.

On March 20, 1934, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation.

On April 28, 1934, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by a Special Troika at the Plenipotentiary Representation of the OGPU for the Ural Region. He served his sentence in the Karaganda Correctional Labor Camp in Kazakhstan.

On November 18, 1937, he was taken into custody in the camp on charges of "agitation against the Soviet government and the Communist Party in the Samara division of the Karlag, and agitation against going to work." He did not admit his guilt and told the investigator: "I have said and say that the Soviet government isolates innocent people in the camp, and us, the priests, because we believe in God... I am isolated in the camp not for agitation against the Soviet government... I suffer for faith in Christ."

On December 8, 1937, he was sentenced to execution by shooting by a Special Troika of the Karaganda Regional NKVD. He was buried in an unknown common grave.

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