Title: City Svyatogorsk. Status: city of regional significance in the Donetsk region. Location: approximately 140 km from Donetsk Population: 5 thousand inhabitants Area: 8,4 km² Reservoirs: The river Seversky Donets Year Established: 1571 Historical note: The settlement was founded in the XVI century the Cossacks and peasants escaped from the territories of modern central Russia and the Right-Bank Ukraine. Later it built a monastery on the right bank Donets. In 1679 the monastery was invaded and plundered the Crimean Tatars. After a while these places are owned by Grigory Potemkin and his heirs: on one of the chalk hills on the right bank of the Seversky Donets Earl built a palace on the lake in the floodplain of the river-bath for guests. Hence the name of the lake and the villages on its shore - Bath. At the end of XIX century earl Riboper started in the sauna equestrian, turpentine and saw-mills, and the rich people come here with lung diseases and diseases of the joints. After the establishment of Soviet power the monastery was closed. In 1922 in the former convent hotel opened a holiday home, and in 1929 established farm in the sauna. Since 1938 the village was enrolled as urban villages. Since 1950 there is rapidly developing resort economy. In 1964, the village acquires the status of the city with the name Slavyanogorsk. In 1992 he resumed his activities Assumption monastery: there were monks, monks, novices, in the free use of the monastery returned to the Assumption Cathedral, St. Nicholas Church, the cave church of St. Anthony and Theodosius, a complex of cave structures, east and west towers, Cyril and Methodius ladder lower and upper halls of pilgrims. In 2004 the monastery was granted the status of Lavra. Major attractions: Svyatogorsk laurel Svyatogorsky State Historical-Architectural Reserve, Artyom monument, Oak Kamyshova. Source of information: http://ru.wikipedia.org