Vladimir Shelkov
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Vladimir Shelkov (1895–1980) was a Christian preacher and Seventh-day Adventist leader in the former Soviet Union. He headed the Church of True and Free Seventh-day Adventists, which rejected any government interference in the activities.[1]
Vladimir was born in Bolshaya Viska village in Ukraine.[2]
In 1931 Shelkov was imprisoned for the first time by the Soviet regime and spent almost all his life in prisons and camps.[3] His last confinement began in 1979, when a Soviet court in Tashkent sentenced him (than a delicate eighty-three-year-old man) to five years of hard labor camps.
He died in a labor camp Tabaga near Yakutsk in 1980.
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