Ioann Nikitich Menkov

Ioann Nikitich Menkov was born in 1884. He completed three grades of parish school.

In 1917, he served as a psalmist in the church of the village of Sazanovka (now Ananyevo, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan), and later in the church of the village of Kara-Balta.

In October 1920, he was arrested along with 31 others as a participant in a "counter-revolutionary organization" that aimed "to overthrow Soviet power and prepare an uprising in Turkestan."

On October 13, 1920, he was imprisoned in the city of Verny. He did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to execution by shooting. He was executed along with Hieromartyr Alexander Yuzefovich and buried in an unknown grave.

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