Bicycle ride Serpukhov

Vysotsky Monastery (Russian: Высоцкий монастырь) is a walled Russian Orthodox monastery commanding the high left bank of the Nara River in Serpukhov, close to its confluence with the Oka. Its name stems from the Russian word for "heights".The monastery was founded in the 1370s by Vladimir the Bold and long served as a border fortress defending the southern approaches to Moscow from the Tatars.

The Church of The Vernicle in Serpukhov (Russian: Храм Спаса Нерукотворного в Серпухове) is a small church in the town of Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia.The church was constructed between 1893 and 1896 to a Russian Revivalist design and was funded by Serpukhov's merchant Vasily Fyodorovich Astapov.