Women's Monastery of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God

The history of the creation of the monastery began with two nuns from the Black Sea monastery, who in 1903 asked the administration to allocate them a plot of land for the construction of a female monastery. There is an opinion that the monastery was built on the money of the merchant Fedorov, so sometimes the monastery was also called "Fedorovsky" in honor of the patron.

During the following years, a temple, a chapel, rooms for nuns, a house for the abbess were built on this site and a healing spring was ennobled.

During World War I, the cells were set aside as a shelter for girls from Poland. During the years of Soviet power, the monastery was threatened with closure, but Abbess Anastasia, who headed the monastery at that time, managed to register the monastery under the guise of an agricultural artel.

But, to contain the onslaught, all the gaining strength of anti-religious Soviet Russia, was not long, and in 1929 the monastery was closed, and on its territory organized a club, orphanage, and then ordinary warehouses.

In these difficult years, the territory of the monastery fell into deep decline: the garden and flower beds perished, the beautiful pond turned into a swamp, the source of the estuaries, and the buildings themselves were destroyed.

In the early 90s, it was decided to revive the St. Iverian convent. Today on its territory you can see restored temples with gilded domes, a chapel. All this is surrounded by a stone fence, and inside the ordinary monastic life moves.