Gury, Metropolitan (in the world Egorov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich)

Genus. in 1891 in the village of Opechensky Posad, Borovichi district, Novgorod province; Russian; from the family of the owner of an artel of dray drivers. In 1911 he graduated from the Petrovsky Commercial School in St. Petersburg; since 1915 hieromonk; in 1917 he graduated from the Petrograd Theological Academy; since 1922 archimandrite. He organized the missionary society "Brotherhood of St. Alexander Nevsky" in Petrograd. Arrested in 1922. Sentenced to deportation to Turkestan. In 1925, rector of the Kinovia Alexander Nevsky Lavra, in 1926 (1928?) rector of the Church of the Leningrad Metochion of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Arrested in Lenitngrad on May 27, 1927. The case was dropped for lack of evidence. Released on November 10, 1928. Arrested in the “Resurrection” case on December 24, 1928, sentenced by the OSO Kogpu on July 22, 1929 to 5 years in a concentration camp; served time in the BBL, initially in Kem, then in Medvezhyegorsk. Since 1930 - at the Kuzema station of the Murmansk railway (lumberjack, accountant, cashier). After liberation he lived in Tashkent and Fergana, in 1944 he became rector of the Intercession Cathedral in Samarkand. Since 1945, honorary rector of the Elias Church in Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad). In 1945-1946. Viceroy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Since 1946, Bishop of Tashkent and Central Asia; since 1952 archbishop, since 1959 metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus, since 1961 - metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea. Died in 1965 in Crimea.