Ganina Yama Monastery Tickets & Tours

Ganina Yama was a 9 ft. deep pit in the Four Brothers mine near the village of Koptyaki, 15 km north from Yekaterinburg. In the pre-dawn hours of 17 July 1918, after the execution of the Romanov family, the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (who had been murdered at the Ipatiev House) were secretly transported to Ganina Yama and thrown into the pit. A picturesque monastery in Ganina Yama was built in 2000. Russian Orthodox Church constructed the Monastery of the Holy Imperial Passion-Bearers at the site in 2001. Seven chapels were later constructed at the site, one for each member of the royal family.