☦ Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery - Vologda region The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, known in English as the Belozersky Kirillovsky Monastery, is a male monastery of the Vologda Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, located on the shores of Lake Siverskoye in the city of Kirillov, Russia, which arose from a settlement (sloboda) that grew up around the monastery. Photo: Evgeniy Anatolyevich Shelkovnikov · CC BY-SA 4.0