One of the famous velikoustyuzhskogo monasteries is part of St. John the Baptist monastery, located in the district of Gore. The composition of St. John the Baptist monastery consisted of: the Church of St. John the Baptist, St. John the Baptist, who suffered the devastating fire in 1921, and the monks ' cells.

The monastery was founded in 1262. Its appearance and construction is closely related to Tatar baskakom Buga. At the time, the position of the Russian people was very depressing. Bug, then living in the town, took in a tribute to the daughter of a respectable inhabitant of Mary. On the baskakom against many Russian princes. Then he came to Mary and asked that she saved him. Maria advised to be baptized, after which they were married. After the baptism of the bug was named John. According to legend, he built a Church named after John the Baptist, and then to St. John the Baptist monastery.

Three-tiered bell tower of the monastery was converted to the city and is topped by a cross and an Apple. The hillside was attached tiled staircase, and under the mountain housed a small wooden chapel, which is now gone. In the chapel housed a bowl, lined with marble, which was dripping water from the spring. Also in the monastery there was an almshouse for old women, hospital, bakery and a house that is designed for the reception of itinerant people. The inhabitant of the monastery was engaged in seaming and gold crafts. For workshops of works on the South West side was built a spacious building, which burned down in 1900 and in 1904 was again designed by Kuritsyna V. N.

In 1888 at the monastery was opened diocesan school for girls. During the years 1899-1913, when the abbess of the monastery was abbess Paisii, the monastery underwent a comprehensive renovation and construction work, during which it was laid for the new Church. After the October revolution in building intended for workshops Affairs, began its work craft school with a dormitory, but soon it was closed.

The main monastery Church has not survived and was the only Church in Veliky Ustyug, built in the early 20th century. The architect of the temple was Kuritsin Vladimir Nikolaevich, the draft of which was approved by the Holy Synod in 1908. The first tab of the temple took place on 25 may 1909.

In architectural perspective, the building of the monastery was a symmetrically executed cross. In the temple there were four entrances: two entrances were meant for internal purposes, and the other two were considered as the main inputs for the parishioners. Each of the inputs had its own porch with cupola. Under the project, the Central dome was the helmet end, but actually, it was built in the more drawn up the form. In the Central part of the dome was located wide band, decorated in iron. In this case, there are several scenarios: the first is particularly emphasized by the membership of the Church of St. John the Baptist, as indicated by the beheading of the temple of the head; the second assumed the presence of a light bar, which can operate over long distances; the third option – the temple dome just did not, as planned, to cover the iron, because the latter was withdrawn in 1919, during the reign of Soviet power.

In the Northern part of the temple refectory was located a limit on the altar, consecrated in honor of the Ecumenical icon of the Mother of God and otdeleniya on the South side of the iconostasis, between the columns of the image of the great Martyr Theodore Stratelates. In the Northern part of the porch was the limit in the name of Saint Barbara, which housed two beautiful image of the Annunciation of the virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity with the Genesis of Abraham, written in the late 16th-early 17th century.

The fate of the Church was very tragic: summer 11 July 1921, a fire broke out that caused not only burned down the forest, but also collapsed the dome built again the temple. Years later, on March 10, 1927, it was decided to break all the remnants of pogorevshikh of the temple. At that time big city lost original from all sides of the building, which for many years was recognized as skilled experts as unprecedented.