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• Alexander Nevsky Lavra
  Alexander Nevsky Lavra
  Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg supposing that that was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alexander Nevsky, a prince, defeated the Swedes; however, the battle...
  
  
• Alexander-Svirsky Monastery
  Alexander-Svirsky Monastery
  Alexander-Svirsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery situated deep in the woods of the Leningrad Oblast, just south from its border with the Republic of Karelia...
  
  
• Alexeevsky Monastery
• Antonievo-Siysky Monastery
  Antonievo-Siysky Monastery
  Antonievo-Siysky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery that was founded by Saint Anthony of Siya deep in the woods, 90 km to the south of Kholmogory, in 1520...
  
  
• Arkazhsky Monastery
  Arkazhsky Monastery
  The Arkazhy Monastery was one of the most important monasteries of medieval Novgorod the Great. It stood about two miles south of the city and just west of the Yuriev Monastery. All that remains of it today is the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, which is visible on the road out...
  
  
• Ascension Convent
  Ascension Convent
  Ascension Convent, known as the Starodevichy Convent or Old Maiden's until 1817 , was a female cloister in the Moscow Kremlin which contained the burials of grand princesses, tsarinas, and other noble ladies from the Muscovite royal court.It is believed that Ascension Convent was founded in 1389...
  
  

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• Bogoyavlensky Monastery (Kostroma)
  Bogoyavlensky Monastery (Kostroma)
  Bogoyavlensky Convent is one of the most populous Russian Orthodox convents. It is situated in Kostroma and is known as the location of the ancient Feodorovskaya Icon of God's Mother....
  
  
• Bogoyavlensky Monastery (Uglich)
• Borisoglebsky Monastery (Borisoglebsky)
• Borisoglebsky Monastery (Dmitrov)

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• Chernigovsky Skit
  Chernigovsky Skit
  The Chernigovsky skete in Sergiev Posad, Russia is a monastery standing unique in central Russia for hand-dug monk cells and prayer caves. Since 1990 it has been under restoration owing to state help and parishioner donations. After its blossom in the early 20th century as part of the Holy Trinity...
  
  
• Chrysostom Monastery
  Chrysostom Monastery
  The Chrysostom Monastery was a monastery in Moscow. It was consecrated to Saint John Chrysostom .The cloister to the east from the Kitai-gorod was first mentioned in 1412 when a Novgorod archdeacon was buried there. In 1478, Grand Prince Ivan III, who had a suburban palace nearby, had the wooden...
  
  
• Chudov Monastery
  Chudov Monastery
  The Chudov Monastery was founded in the Moscow Kremlin in 1358 by Metropolitan Alexius of Moscow. The monastery was dedicated to the miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae...
  
  
• Conception Convent
  Conception Convent
  Conception monastery is an operating Russian Orthodox convent in Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia. The Convent, closed in 1918, reopened in 1995 and has now been restored.-History:...
  
  

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• Ganina Yama
  Ganina Yama
  Ganina Yama was a 9' deep pit in the Four Brothers mine near the village of Koptyaki, 15 km north from Yekaterinburg...
  
  
• Goritsky Monastery (Goritsy)
  Goritsky Monastery (Goritsy)
  The Goritsky Monastery of Resurrection is a Russian Orthodox convent in the village of Goritsy, north of the town of Kirillov, Kirillovsky District, Vologda oblast, Russia...
  
  
• Goritsky Monastery (Pereslavl-Zalessky)
  Goritsky Monastery (Pereslavl-Zalessky)
  The Goritsky Monastery of Dormition was a Russian Orthodox monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia. It was supposedly established it early 14th century during the reign of Ivan I of Moscow . No original architecture was preserved. The oldest parts of the current ensemble date to 17-18th...
  
  

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• Kamenny Monastery
  Kamenny Monastery
  Kamenny Monastery was the name of a Russian Orthodox monastery situated on a small eponymous island in the very centre of the Kubensky Lake. It is distinguished as the first stone monastery of the Russian North.Kamenny Island is very small, measuring just 120 metres by 70 metres...
  
  
• Khutyn Monastery
  Khutyn Monastery
  Khutyn Monastery of Saviour's Transfiguration and of St. Varlaam used to be the holiest monastery of the medieval Novgorod Republic. The monastery is situated on the right bank of the Volkhov River some 10 km north northeast of Velikiy Novgorod, in the village of Khutyn, whose name is perhaps...
  
  
• Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
  Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
  Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery , loosely translated in English as the St. Cyril-Belozersk Monastery, used to be the largest monastery of Northern Russia. The monastery was dedicated to the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, for which cause it was sometimes referred to as the Dormition Monastery...
  
  
• Kizichesky Monastery
  Kizichesky Monastery
  Kizichesky Vvedensky Monastery is a small male monastery in Kazan .The monastery was founded in 1691 by Adrian the Moscow Patriarch who until 1690 were the Kazan Bishop. The name Kazichesky means Holy Martyrs of Cyzicus...
  
  
• Klobukov Monastery
• Konevsky Monastery
  Konevsky Monastery
  Konevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery that occupies Konevets Island in the western part of the Lake Ladoga, Leningrad Oblast, Russian Federation. It is often regarded as the twin monastery with the Valaam Monastery, also located on an island in the same lake.- Medieval origins...
  
  
• Korennaya Monastery (Korennaya Pustyn)
• Krestny Monastery at Kiy Island
• Krutitsy
  Krutitsy
  Krutitsy Metochion , full name: Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Church, located in Tagansky District of Moscow, Russia, 3 kilometers south-east from the Kremlin. The name Krutitsy , i.e. steep river banks, originally meant the hills...
  
  
• Krypetsky Monastery
  Krypetsky Monastery
  Krypetsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery situated 23 km from Pskov.The monastery was founded in 1485 by St. Savva Krypetsky, a Serbian monk from Mount Athos, in what was then described as an impracticable mire. Two years later, the Pskov veche supported his establishment by granting a...
  
  

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• New Jerusalem Monastery
  New Jerusalem Monastery
  The New Jerusalem Monastery or Novoiyerusalimsky Monastery , also known as the Voskresensky Monastery, is a male monastery, located in the town of Istra in Moscow Oblast, Russia....
  
  
• Nikolo-Babaysky Monastery
• Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery
  Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery
  Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Severodvinsk .This monastery is believed to have been founded by St. Euphemius, an Orthodox missionary in the Karelian lands. In 1419 the Swedes burnt down the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery...
  
  
• Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
  Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
  Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery is the southernmost historical monastery of Moscow. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker....
  
  
• Nikolo-Ugresh monastery
  Nikolo-Ugresh monastery
  Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery is a walled stauropegic Russian Orthodox monastery of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker located in a suburb of Moscow formerly known as Ugreshi and now called Dzerzhinsky...
  
  
• Novodevichy Convent
  Novodevichy Convent
  Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from an ancient maidens' convent within the Moscow Kremlin. Unlike other Moscow cloisters, it has...
  
  
• Novospassky Monastery
  Novospassky Monastery
  Novospassky Monastery is one of the fortified monasteries surrounding Moscow from south-east.It was the first monastery to be founded in Moscow in the early 14th century. The Saviour Church was its original katholikon...
  
  

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• Pafnutievo-Borovsky Monastery
• Pechenga Monastery
  Pechenga Monastery
  The Pechenga Monastery was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world. It was founded in 1533 at the influx of the Pechenga River into the Barents Sea, 135 km west of modern Murmansk, by St...
  
  
• Pokrovsky Monastery (Moscow)
• Pokrovsky Monastery (Suzdal)
• Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery
  Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery
  Pskov-Caves Monastery or The Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery or Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox male monastery, located in Pechory, Pskov Oblast in Russia, just a few kilometers from the Estonian border....
  
  
• Pühtitsa Convent
  Puhtitsa Convent
  Pühtitsa Convent is a convent located in Eastern Estonia between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Finland.-History:...
  
  

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• Rizopolozhensky Monastery
• Rozhdestvensky monastery (Moscow)
• Rozhdestvensky monastery (Vladimir)

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• Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
  Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
  The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Zvenigorod.In 1398, Prince Yuri asked St. Savva Storozhevsky, one of the first disciples of Sergii Radonezhsky, to go to Zvenigorod and to establish a monastery on the Storozhi Holm...
  
  
• Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery
  Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery
  Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery, or Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, or Holy Trinity-Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery near Sarov , and near the city of Nizhny Novgorod , in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is situated in a region considered to have immense spiritual significance...
  
  
• Simonov Monastery
  Simonov Monastery
  Simonov monastery in Moscow was established in 1370 by monk Feodor, a nephew and disciple of St Sergius of Radonezh.The monastery land formerly belonged to Simeon Khovrin, a boyar of Greek extraction and progenitor of the great clan of Golovins. He took monastic vows in the cloister under the name...
  
  
• Solovetsky Monastery
  Solovetsky Monastery
  Solovetsky Monastery was the greatest citadel of Christianity in the Russian North before being turned into a special Soviet prison and labor camp , which served as a prototype for the GULag system. Situated on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, the monastery braved many changes of fortune...
  
  
• Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery
• Sretensky Monastery (Kashin)
• Sretensky Monastery (Gorohovets)
• Sretensky Monastery (Moscow)
• Sretensky Monastery (Pereslavl-Zalessky)
• St. Andronik Monastery
  St. Andronik Monastery
  Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour is a former monastery on the left bank of the Yauza River in Moscow, consecrated to the Holy Image of Saviour Not Made by Hands and containing the oldest extant building in Moscow...
  
  
• Svensky Monastery
  Svensky Monastery
  Svensky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery located at the confluence of the Desna and Svin Rivers, three miles from Bryansk, Russia...
  
  

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• Tikhvinsky Monastery (Tikhvin)
• Troitse-Danilov Monastery
• Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to...
  
  
• Troitsky Boldin Monastery
• Troitsky Makariev Monastery

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• Zaikonospassky monastery
  Zaikonospassky monastery
  The Zaikonospassky monastery was a monastery in Kitai-gorod, Moscow, just one block away from the Kremlin.It was founded in 1600 by Boris Godunov...