Saints Cosmas and Damian Church, Crimea, Eastern Orthodox monastery in Alushta Urban Okrug, Crimea

Saints Cosmas and Damian Monastery stands on the northern slopes of Babugan-Yayla, 20 km from Alushta, surrounded by the Cherna, Bolshaya Chuchel and Malaya Chuchel mountains and the Konyok ridge. Its chapel over the holy spring survived the destruction of the monastery buildings during the Second World War. The monastery territory includes the Savlukh-Su spring.

Founded in 1856 by Archbishop Innokenty of Kherson and Taurida at the spring of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the monastery was closed in 1898 and reopened the same year as a women's convent under Abbess Varsonofia. In 1923 the Soviet authorities liquidated it, and its buildings were destroyed during the Second World War; only the chapel over the spring survived. Revival began on 14 June 1994 with a liturgy by Archbishop Lazar.

The monastery is named after Saints Cosmas and Damian, twin brothers from Arabia who practiced medicine without charging patients during the third century.

The monastery lies 20 km from Alushta on the northern slopes of Babugan-Yaila, reached by the Romanovskoye Highway or by trails over the yaila, including the Talma-Bogaz path past the Gavrel-Chokrak spring. Trails are steep and exposed to mountain weather; the site is within the Crimean Reserve, so check access rules before setting out.

The chapel over the holy spring survived when all other monastery buildings were destroyed during the Second World War; it is the only structure that remained intact. The monastery also keeps an icon of the Mother of God "Jerusalem", painted and consecrated on Mount Athos in Greece, and an icon of Saints Cosmas and Damian with particles of their relics.