Vladimir Shelkov

Vladimir Shelkov

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. [ [http://old.spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive11-15/index11-4.html Spectrum Magazine Articles] ]

Vladimir was born in "Bolshaya Viska" village in Ukraine. [ [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s3/shelkov_v_a.shtml Biography of V.Shelkov by Daniel Heinz] ]

In 1931 Shelkov was imprisoned for the first time by the Soviet regime and spent almost all his life in prisons and camps. [ [http://www.adventistas.com/novembro2000/russiasd.htm Letter on Adventist Site] ] 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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