Ploshansky Monastery, Eastern Orthodox monastery in Brasovsky District, Russia

Ploshansky Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Brasovsky District, Russia, made up of several buildings grouped around a central courtyard. The complex has a church, a bell tower, and living quarters for the monks, all enclosed within stone walls.

The monastery was ravaged by Poles and began to be restored after 1613 by Prokopy, a Greek hieromonk from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. In 1764 it became an out-of-staff monastery. It was closed in 1917, finally liquidated in 1921, and returned to monastics in late 1994; only the Holy Spirit church survived, and restoration of the Kazan cathedral began in 2012.

The monastery serves as a gathering place where the Orthodox community celebrates religious holidays and maintains traditional worship practices that have survived for generations. Visitors can observe how monks and worshippers move through the spaces during daily prayer times and liturgical ceremonies.

The monastery is located outside Bryansk city and can be reached by public transport from there. It is worth contacting the monastery in advance, as access conditions may vary depending on the liturgical calendar.

The monastery's name comes from the Ploshchansky well, a spring in the hill where, according to the monk Efrem, three monks once lived in a dugout, among them the Greek hieromonk Prokopy from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Prokopy is credited with renewing the ravaged monastery after 1613.