The village of Kislyaya was founded around 1690. In 1721, a church was built there, after which the village became known as the village of Kislyansk.

The church has been rebuilt several times. During renovations in the 1970s, it was evident that the central nave was built first, followed by the addition of two side naves, the northern and southern. The bell tower and "summer church" were added in the second half of the 19th century. The metric books of the Cyril Church have been preserved since 1780, when they were first introduced in churches by decree of Catherine II.

Irina Igisheva, a student of Kislyansk Secondary School, studied the history of the Cyril Church under the guidance of Larisa Yuryevna Cherepanova and prepared a report for the regional local history conference in 2008. Here are excerpts from this report:

The village of Kislyansk in the Yurgamyshevsky district is over three hundred years old. In the late 17th century, the first settlers came here in search of a better life. All the residents were Orthodox and until 1721 attended the church in the village of Okunevsky. Then they built their own church in honor of Saint Cyril of Belozersk.

In 1721, a wooden church was built in the village of Kislyansk in the name of Saint Cyril, the abbot of the Belozersk Monastery, founded in 1397. The founders of the village came from the northern part of European Russia, where this saint was venerated.

Initially, the parish of the church covered almost all the villages in the northern part of the modern Yurgamyshevsky district. In 1838, the Karasin parish was established, in 1868, the Ostrovsky, and in 1871, the Malobelovsky.

In the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, representatives of the Biryukov family served in the parish. Vasily Grigoryevich Biryukov was a non-staff priest since 1847, and from 1852, he was out of staff. In 1903, Alexander Alexeyevich Biryukov, who was 18 years old, joined the staff.

In the early 1930s, persecution of the church began, along with its looting. Important church items were hidden under the floor and later taken by the residents.

From the 1930s until the early 1950s, state grain was stored in the church. In 1954, bricks from the walls were attempted to be used for a collective farm power station, but they turned out to be too strong and were taken to the dam.

In the early 1950s, the collective farm built a grain dryer next to the church, and during this process, the graves of priests were discovered. In 1982, while laying a heating main, coffins and bones were encountered again. The village culture house was built on the site of the cemetery.

The floor in the winter church was laid with cast-iron tiles with patterns, which can now be seen in the fences of neighboring villages. The bell tower was topped with an onion dome with a cross, which was eventually sold for scrap metal.

By 1983, the Cyril Church was repaired with funds from the collective farm under the guidance of O. A. Askarova, and a store was opened in it, as it was impossible to open the church for believers.

In 2006, at the initiative of Olga Alexeyevna Askarova, the restoration of the Church of Cyril of Belozersk in the village of Kislyansk began.