On September 27, 2015, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a Pilgrim Cross was consecrated in the village of Timonkyino, part of the Vershilovsky rural council. This event was specifically timed to coincide with the village's main patronal feast. In the past, Timonkyino was a large and wealthy village with numerous residents. It housed a beautiful white-stone Exaltation church, where believers from the surrounding area gathered for important Orthodox holidays. Now, only fragments of thick brick walls overgrown with weeds remain, along with a granite monument to the wealthy peasant Dmitry Belonogov, who died in 1904. Currently, only 14 local residents live in the village, with the rest being summer residents. Father Alexey Lebedev chose a spot for the Pilgrim Cross near the dilapidated church.

According to a document from the Nizhny Novgorod regional archive, in 1747, there was a wooden Exaltation church with a church cemetery in Timonkyino. The priest serving there was Mikhail Andriyanov. In 1814, a stone church was built on the site of the dismantled wooden church, which had fallen into disrepair, with an altar, a space for worshippers, and a bell tower, constructed by the efforts of the parishioners. In 1890, the church building was surrounded by a stone fence. The church had three altars: the main one in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and chapels in honor of the apostles Peter and Paul and the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to data from 1916, the parish had 1,400 Orthodox retired military personnel and peasants with families from Timonkyino and twelve nearby villages. From 1815 to 1934, eleven priests and three church elders served in the parish. The church was closed and destroyed in 1935.

Local residents recall that the church still stood in the 1950s. It housed a club, with a stage in place of the altar and a gallery in the choir loft. They remember how artists were brought to the village for concerts. Later, a cinema booth was added to the church building, and films began to be shown. In the 1970s, the bell tower was destroyed, followed by the church itself.