The Kirillo-Salmagorski monastery is abolished monastery. It is located to the South-East of the village Mariinskaya Kargopol district, Arkhangelsk region between the lakes of Lexposure and Monastery. Now from the monastery there are only ruins.

In 1316 year Saint Cyril Salmagorski, Novgorod monk St. Anthony " s monastery, lived on mount Chalma owned Peipsi lands. In the cave he spent the first winter, later built a wooden hut and a chapel. By the end of the life of St. Cyril all the local people were baptized. For new believers venerable Church was built in honor of the Epiphany. Died Saint Cyril in December 1368. 10 years after his death, in 1378, hieromonk Arseny founded the Kirillo-Salmagorski monastery.

In the XV century was built a new temple with a chapel in the name of Catherine. Ivan IV the terrible gave the Kirillo-Chernogorskoye the monastery of arable land, fields under grasslands, forests, lakes and small rivers and told me to give the monastery a portion of the proceeds of Kargopol. There are versions that this monastery was sent to one of the wives of Ivan the terrible. In 1599 there were forcibly tonsured wife of Dmitry Kurlyatev-Obolensky and his 2 daughters. In 1612-1615, the monastery was repeatedly devastated the Lithuanians. In 1633, the Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikolutsky Cyprian gives the Kirillo-Chernogorskoye monastery letter with a blessing for the construction of two temples: the Epiphany and Bogoroditsky. In 1637, the monastery receives another letter with the blessing III for the construction of the temple over the Holy gates in the name of Catherine. The Church of Saint Catherine is not mentioned in the Chronicles after 1656, he probably burned. In 1674, died in a fire in the Church of the Annunciation, and in its place was erected the assumption. In addition, the monastery was rather in the city of Kargopol.

In 1727 impoverished Cyril-Salmagorski the monastery is attributed to the Kargopol. In 1732, the monastery became independent, but in 1751 he was again assigned to the Kargopol monastery. In 1764, Catherine the great, Cyril-Salmagorski the monastery was liquidated. Two monastic Church became a parish. In 1844-1845 in place of the old Church of the Epiphany merchant Michael N. Lytkin built a new Epiphany Cathedral with the chapel of St. Cyril Chernogorskogo. In 1845 the building of the former monastery were given to Alexander Oshevensky monastery.

In 1880-ies Chernogorsk the monastery was obtained relative (but not officially confirmed) independence. In 1880 and 1887, he survives the fires. Epiphany the Church was again rebuilt in the years 1897-1899. In 1904, the Holy Synod gives monastery independence. In 1917 Metropolitan Veniamin of Petrograd blesses the construction of a farmstead of the Kirillo-Chernogorskoj Epiphany desert in Petrograd. In June, 1918, there had to consecrate the chapel in the name of the Holy Martyr Hermogenes.

In 1932, after the arrest of monks and clergy, the Kirillo-Salmagorski the monastery was forever abolished, wooden monastic buildings demolished, including the Church of Dormition. Currently from the former monastery remained only ruins. In 2005, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory Tikhon was consecrated near the place where the monastery stood, erected a cross in memory of St. Cyril Chernogorskogo.