The Kondinsky (Kodinsky) Holy Trinity Monastery was founded in 1657 by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. It was originally petitioned by the Ostyak princes Alachev and was the first monastery to the north of the Ob River. Most likely, the monastery got its name from the local river Kodushka (Koda) and was located near the place where the Koda River joins the Ob.
The journalist Svetlana Valeryevna Polivanova pointed out that “in the 17th century, the monastery… had a large farm: its own forge, four mills, a malt house… as well as 775 peasants.” The monks raised cattle, engaged in fishing, mined mica and iron ore, made hemp oil, butter and candles, and baked bread.
In the late 18th century, the monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence with two watchtowers. In 1731, a stone Holy Trinity Church was erected there (consecrated in 1758) with heated side chapels in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (consecrated in 1765).
Furthermore, the monastery had wooden outbuildings, a two-story abbot house and one-story building for the monks, between which there was a root cellar. A bit further away there was a cellar and a kitchen (separate buildings with a kitchen were provided for hired workers), a building for storing delivered goods and a steam bath.
In the late 19th century, the monastery was turned into a convent, and the nuns of the Convent of St. John the Baptist and the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin were sent there. According to the historian Irina Leonidovna Mankova, the nuns were engaged in “missionary work, taught local children at school, including girls, and provided medical assistance and food to the population.”
After the revolution of 1917, the monastery was deprived of its farmland and other possessions and finally abolished in 1930.
In December 1991, Galina Illarionovna Makarova became director of the Oktyabrskoe Museum of Local Lore. In addition to other duties, she was engaged in collecting artifacts and organizing exhibitions. As a local historian, she was interested in the history of the Holy Trinity Monastery and managed to restore the appearance of the monastery with all its buildings, relying on the documents of the Tobolsk State Archive.
Based on the descriptions of Makarova, an artist from the village of Peregrebnoye Yury Alexeyevich Privalov created the presented scale model, which shows how the monastery looked in the late 18th — early 19th century.
