"Monastery of the Sign cenobitic at the farm dissipated, the Alexander County. Established in 1906, the women's community founded in 1903 under the name" Znamenskaya desert. "During his school and various workshops, including painting ..." (From the book by SV Bulgakov's "The Russian monasteries in 1913.") Monastery survived the 1917 revolution, but in 1927 was still closed. In the warm abbey church made gym, in the monastic buildings have placed the school. At the end of 1945 year old Cathedral of the Transfiguration was blown up. By the end of the 90s was a monastery ruins, overgrown bushes, weeds and old trees, garbage lying around ... In 1995, the restoration of the monastery. In 2005 the monastery held a great celebration, which will go glorious page in the history of the entire Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk. On this Easter day blessed the restored ruins of a temple in honor of "Znamenskaya" Mother of God. Now the restored church can not accommodate all the worshipers.