According to the order of the Department for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Nizhny Novgorod and the region dated April 24, 2000, the rural Znamenskaya Church was recognized as an object of historical and cultural heritage. The church dates back to 1833. However, according to the State Heritage Protection Office, this order lost its validity on October 20, 2014. Natalia Listvina reports that Studenets is now a wasteland, and it can only be reached by a field road. Despite this, the church is being restored, and temporary housing has even been built for the workers. A book about Sergius of Radonezh and the Nizhny Novgorod land mentions that the stone church in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Sign' with two chapels was built in 1833 with funds from parishioners and with the support of the noble Naryshkin family. Ksenia Petrovna and Pavel Alexandrovich Naryshkin are also buried here.

The settlement of Studenets emerged in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, there was already a wooden church here, next to which cold springs flowed, which likely gave the area its name. Along with the main church building, a tall three-tiered bell tower was constructed. A stone fence with four towers was built around the church. Within the fence, there was a chapel with an altar in the name of St. Alexius, the man of God, where the noble Potemkin family was buried. In the 1930s, the church was closed and desecrated, and in the post-war years, the bell tower was destroyed. Today, the cemetery and noble burial sites have been obliterated, the village itself has disappeared, and there are no residents left. In 2010, at the initiative of the residents of Vorsma, work began on the restoration of the dilapidated church.