Description
In 1886, the Orsk Orthodox Women's Community was established on the lands allocated by the Orsk City Public Administration. She was allocated a plot of land in the amount of 10,500 square meters. A fathom. The community continued to exist until 1897. The first abbess of the community from 1885 to February 24, 1894, was its founder, nun Evpraksia.
In 1894, by a decree of the Orenburg Ecclesiastical Consistory dated February 18, 1894, nun Evlampia (in the world Yefimya Nikitichna Vasilyeva) was appointed abbess of the Orenburg Assumption Convent.
In 1897, the nun Evlampia submitted a petition to His Grace, His Grace Vladimir, Bishop of Orenburg and Uralsky, to open a monastery in the city of Orsk of the Orenburg diocese as follows: "On the basis of the decree of His Holiness the Governing Decree of the Holy Governing Synod of October 25, 1888, No. 5347, the Intercession Women's Community currently has