The first wooden church in Vodovatovo was built in 1652. In 1742, the villagers acquired an ancient oak church from Arzamas, which stood in Vodovatovo until 1800, after which it was sold to the village of Kostyliha, where it remains today. The winter church was built in Vodovatovo in 1772, and the bell tower was completed in 1861. The construction of the summer church began in 1903 and was finished in 1916. In 1888, the priest in Vodovatovo was V.P. Polidorsky, the deacon was V.M. Remizov, and the psalmist was G.I. Sosnovsky. The church owned 36 desyatinas of land. The parish, which included Vodovatovo, Lidina, and Maina, had 1955 people, of which 917 were men and 1038 were women. Among the men, 54 were literate, and among the women, 2.

Education in the village began to develop in 1885 when deacon Dertov organized a class for 5-8 children. Classes were held in the building of the almshouse, built in 1800, which now serves as the village library. In 1893, a church-parish school was built. In 1910, it was taught by priest Vasily Pavlovich Nadezhin, who taught the Law of God, and teacher Stepan Ivanovich Maslennikov, who taught mathematics and the Russian language. Priest V. Nadezhin was respected among the villagers. He had knowledge of medicine and treated the peasants. He had a beautiful garden, a beehive, good horses, cows, a thresher, and was skilled in carpentry. In his household, the Vodovatovo residents first saw seven-row seeders.

The Resurrection Church has been restored.