Kamenno-Brodsky Holy Trinity Belogorsky monastery

According to legend, on the site of the monastery even before the invasion of the Tatar-Mongols, there was a male monastery with a very strict charter. In 1860, the Holy Trinity Kamennobrod Women's Community was founded in Kamenny Brod. In 1865, at the expense of the People’s Counselor Seraphim of Persia, a church was built in honor of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, " All Who Mourn Joy ." After 1928 it was closed, was in an abandoned state. In 1992, the monastery was rebuilt as the Kamennobrodsky Holy Trinity Monastery. On August 27, 1996, hieromonk Elisha (Fomkin) was appointed governor of the monastery.

Holy springs

On the lands of the monastery there are many holy springs with different tastes of water (a total of 5 sources were found), including radon , silver and hydrogen sulfide .

Monastery caves

Near the monastery is the Holy Mountain, in which there are monastery caves. There is no free entrance to the caves, the tour is conducted by a representative of the monastery, and only in a small part of the underground passages. But there remains a lot of unsolved riddles that excite the imagination. According to legends, legends and memoirs of old-timers: three- or four-story dungeons stretch for tens of kilometers, including under the monastery itself, through underground streams and mountains. In addition to the cells of the monks, the underground chapel also has a large round hall with a round table made from chalk in the middle, chairs, bowls for butter and holy water. In the caves in Soviet times, atheism hid monks. Labyrinths were built in such a way that they could be easily shut. According to the stories of local residents, even a boat was found in the caves. Now there are periodic failures and subsidence of soil, including on the territory of the monastery. Today, research and clearing of the second tier are carried out by spelestologists and the monks themselves. For tourists, for the time being, only the upper first tier is accessible for inspection, as well as a fenced mysterious passage down, on which the tour ends.

Oak Grove

On the lands of the Holy Trinity Monastery there is a natural monument - oaks - giants from 300 to 400 years old. The size of crowns in some reaches more than 20 m, height - 15 m, trunk diameter - 2 m. Among these oaks there is a road specially paved for the arrival of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Like Peter I, she visited healing springs, in which water of different tastes and composition flows.

Icons

The monastery holds a particularly revered miraculous icon of the Mother of God " Joy of All Who Mourn ".

The Belogorsky Holy Trinity Kamennobrodsky Monastery is a regional nature monument created to preserve a unique natural complex - a landscape with a wide variety of chalky flora listed in the Red Book of the Volgograd Region and the remains of oak groves with trees of 300-400 years old. The natural monument was established by decree of the head of administration of the Volgograd region dated 7.10.2010 No. 1616 "On the natural monument of regional significance" Belogorsky Holy Trinity Kamennobrodsky Monastery "within the Olkhovsky municipal district of the Volgograd region." The area of protected areas is 179 ha. Physical-geographical region: East European Plain , Volga Upland, Ilovlinsko-Medveditsky District, low plateau subarea. The natural zone is steppe, the subzone is dry steppes on chestnut soils ^[1] . The climate is arid. Terrain: Ilovlinsky floodplain flat-plain forest meadow ^[2] . On the chalky slopes - underdeveloped skeletal chestnut light loamy and loamy soils. Under the floodplain forest there are alluvial forest medium humus medium thick heavy loamy soils. Parent rocks - Cretaceous deposits. The bedrock is glauconite-micaceous greenish-gray sands belonging to the Cenomanian layer ^[3] .

The relief is represented by the right bank of the Ilovli River, its flood plain and the first floodplain terrace. The valley is embedded in a denudation plateau with elevation marks + 150, + 180 m, dissected by a dense network of ravines. The ravines form blow-out cones that overlap the floodplain. Giant oaks are located on these drift cones. On the territory there is a stream, the old river of Ilovli. Vegetation is meadow-forbidden in floodplain areas and sparse chalky on chalky slopes. About 150 species of plants were identified in the territory of protected areas, including 4 species listed in the Red Books of the Russian Federation and the Volgograd Region, more than 50 species of insects, including 1 species listed in the IUCN Red List, 4 in the Red Book of the Russian Federation species, in the Red Book of the Volgograd Region - 1 species, amphibians - 2 species, reptiles - 5 species, including those listed in the Red Book of the Volgograd Region - 1 species, birds - about 20 species, mammals - about 5 species. Of particular value are oaks of 400 years of age and thickets of Cossack juniper.

Objects of the plant world listed in the Red Books of the Russian Federation and Volgograd Region:

1. Grouse Russian ( Fritillaria ruthenica Wikstr.) - category of rarity status in the Volgograd region 3b; regional rarity criterion B; category of rarity status according to the Red Book of the Russian Federation 3.
2. Cretaceous penny ( Hedysarum cretaceum Fisch.) - category of rarity status in the Volgograd region 3a; regional rarity criterion A, L; category of rarity status according to the Red Book of the Russian Federation 3.

Objects of the plant world listed in the Red Book of the Volgograd Region:

1. Juniper Cossack ( Juniperus sabina L.) - category of rarity status in the Volgograd region 2a; regional rarity criterion A.
2. Cretaceous feather grass ( Stipa cretacea P. Smirn.) - category of rarity status in the Volgograd region 3a; regional rarity criterion A, L.

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  Juniper Cossack

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  Grouse Russian

The Committee for Environmental Protection and Nature Management of the Volgograd Region is responsible for ensuring the protection and functioning of protected areas.

• www.oopt.aari.ru - SPNA
• Blog-guide on Volgograd and the region
• Belogorsk Kamennobrodsky Holy Trinity Monastery
• Kamenno-Brodsky Trinity Monastery in the project Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "Tree"