Kosmo-Damianovsky (Kozmodemianovsky) Monastery - is located 16 km from Alushta, between Babugan and Sinabdag in the Central Basin of the Crimean Peninsula. Alushta, between Babugan and Sinabdag in the Central Basin of the Crimean State Reserve. State Reserve. The monastery was founded near a healing spring Savlukh-su ("healthy water"), in the place where, according to legend, the saints Kosma and Sinaabdag were killed.
The emergence of the Orthodox monastery in honour of St. Cosmas and Damian is connected with the name of Archbishop Innocent of Kherson and Tauris. In 1856 with the In 1856 with the blessing of Archbishop Innokenty under the leadership of hegumen Makary began the construction of the cynovia.
In 1869 was built a wooden church in the name of St. Cosmas and Damian. and Damian. The monastery had 34 tithes and 1754 square centimetres of land. Gradually, despite financial difficulties, the monastery began to grow. In 1878 the monastery twice visited the monastery of the future Emperor Alexander III, and in 1880 he visited the monastery with his wife Maria Feodorov. with his wife Maria Feodorovna. In 1899 the men's kinovia was transformed into a monastery by the decree of the St. Synod. St. Synod was transformed into a women's dormitory monastery. In 1913 by the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, a chapel was erected over the spring.
On 5 October 1923 the Kosmo-Damianovsky monastery was liquidated. The monastery with all the land was transferred to the possession of the Crimean State Nature Reserve, and the nuns of the former monastery. monastery, having concluded an agreement with the reserve, created an agricultural artel. In the building of the Transfiguration Church it was decided to organise a club, and in the Kosmo-Damianovsky church - a natural history museum. Monastery was restored to service on 29 July 1992.
