Belogorsky Kamennobrodsky Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Kamenny Brod, Russia.
The Belogorsky Kamennobrodsky Monastery stands near Kamenny Brod in the Olkhovsky district of Volgograd Oblast, on the right bank of the Ilovlya River. Its grounds occupy chalk slopes and a floodplain terrace, with monastery buildings, five springs of differing mineral water, and a grove of oaks 300 to 400 years old. The site is also a regional nature monument of 866 hectares.
A women's community of the Holy Trinity was founded at Kamenny Brod in 1860. In 1865, funds from Serafima Persidskaya paid for a church honouring the wonder-working icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". The monastery was closed after 1928 and stood abandoned; in 1992 it was revived as a men's monastery, and on 27 August 1996 hieromonk Yelisey (Fomkin) was appointed its superior.
The monastery maintains Eastern Orthodox traditions through regular worship services that draw believers from surrounding communities. It serves as an active spiritual center where religious practices and ceremonies remain part of daily life.
The caves on Holy Mountain have no free entry: a monastery representative leads the excursion, and only through a small part of the upper first tier, ending at a fenced passage leading down. The second tier is being cleared by speleologists and monks. Ground collapses and subsidence occur periodically, including on monastery grounds.
The grounds contain a network of cave cells and underground passages carved into the chalk, with a subterranean chapel tucked beneath the surface. Ancient oak trees scattered across the property are thought to be 300 to 400 years old, standing as living witnesses to the site's long history.
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