Old church of the Dormition, Eastern Orthodox monastery in Lipetsk, Russia

The Old Church of the Dormition is the main church of the Svyato-Uspensky Lipetsky Monastery in Lipetsk. It is a pillarless, bell-towerless Russian Baroque building: an octagon on a tall two-light quadrangle with a blind drum, a low side chapel on the northwest joined to a refectory on the southwest. Its axis runs northeast–southwest rather than the traditional east–west, and it stands over a holy spring.

The monastery was founded in the late 1600s, making it one of the earliest religious buildings in the Lipetsk area. In 1764, Catherine the Great's church reforms dissolved many monasteries across Russia, and this one was among those that lost its monastic status.

The name "Old Dormition" distinguishes this church from the cemetery Church of the Dormition built on the city's western edge in 1839. The church stands over a holy spring where, according to tradition, the wonder-working icon of the Mother of God "Life-giving Spring" appeared. The monastery occupies the former Monastyrka sloboda, named after the Paroyskaya Hermitage that stood here from the 17th century until 1764.

The church is open throughout the year and operates as an active place of worship, so visitors are expected to dress modestly with covered shoulders and knees. Going outside peak service times gives more space to look around the interior without disturbing worshippers.

Although the monastery was dissolved in 1764, the building continued to serve as a parish church rather than being demolished or repurposed for secular use. This makes it unusual compared to many dissolved monasteries in Russia, which were converted into warehouses or prisons.