Dudin Monastery, Eastern Orthodox monastery in Под'яблонне, Russia

Dudin Monastery stands on the steep right bank of the Oka, 11 km from Bogorodsk. Its partly surviving Dormition (Uspensky) church was founded in 1677 by order of Patriarch Joachim; a bell tower built in 1593 was the monastery's first stone structure. A 150-metre stairway on the slope leads up to the grounds, and a 9-metre, 2-tonne votive cross brought in by helicopter stands nearby.

The monastery is first mentioned in 1408; tradition holds that Sergius of Radonezh visited it on his way from Nizhny Novgorod. Its first stone structure, a bell tower, was built in 1593, and by the 1620s three wooden churches stood here. In 1638 Tsar Michael Feodorovich settled monks from the Mgarsky Lubensky Monastery in Putivl here, and from 1676 it was a patriarchal house monastery. The Dormition Church was founded in 1677; Catherine II abolished the monastery in 1785, and the parish church closed in 1939.

The monastery is named for Saint Ambrose of Milan and Saint Nicholas, and its main church is dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. In 1638 Tsar Michael Feodorovich settled monks from the Mgarsky Lubny Monastery here after they fled persecution in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since 2007 the cross procession with the Vladimir-Oranskaya icon of the Mother of God has passed through the monastery.

The monastery stands on the steep right bank of the Oka, 11 km from Bogorodsk. A 2 km dirt road links it to the village of Podyablonnoye, and a staircase descends to it from the direction of Teteryugino. A 150-metre stairway was built on the slope in 2007–2008, and a road reached the site by March 2008.

On 25 June 2007 a 9-metre votive cross weighing 2 tonnes was set up beside the monastery, the largest in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, brought in by helicopter. The grounds, about 400 square metres, were then fenced with wood after the model of the earlier 3-metre stone wall.