Успенская церковь, Orthodox church in Irkutsk, Russia

The Assumption Church (Uspenskaya Tserkov) is an Orthodox church on Polyarnaya Street in Irkutsk, the only surviving church building of the former Ascension Monastery. Its south and east walls continue the monastery's 1802 stone fence, so the church is built into the wall rather than above its gates. The stone church was consecrated on 19 October 1783.

A wooden Assumption Church was built in 1741 in the southeast corner of the Ascension Monastery with the blessing of Bishop Innocent (Nerunovich). The stone church was laid in May 1780 and consecrated on 19 October 1783 by Archimandrite Sinesius (Ivanov), the monastery's superior. In 1802 the merchant N. S. Chupalov funded a stone wall around the monastery, and the church's south and east walls became a continuation of that wall.

The name refers to the Dormition of the Mother of God, the feast the church is dedicated to. It is the only church building left from the Voznesensky Monastery, and since 1802 its south and east walls have formed part of the monastery's stone enclosure wall, built with funds from the Irkutsk merchant N. S. Chupalov.

The church stands on Polyarnaya Street, in the south-eastern corner of what was the Voznesensky Monastery grounds. Its south and east walls continue the 1802 stone monastery fence, so look for the point where the facade merges into the wall rather than standing free. Approach on foot along the street line.

The church is a rare case of a monastery church built into the perimeter wall rather than above its gates: when the merchant N. S. Chupalov funded a stone wall around the Ascension Monastery in 1802, the church's south and east walls became a continuation of the fortification wall itself.