Киево-Печерская лавра
been founded ca. 1328-1330 by St. Dionysius, who came to Nizhny Novgorod from "Kiev Pechersk Lavra" (i.e., Kiev Monastery of the Caves, "pechery" meaning 'caves') with several other monks, and dug for himself a cave on the step Volga shore some 3 km southeast of the city. Later on, he founded at that site a monastery with a church of Resurrection of the Lord.