Not far from the village of Spasskoe-Saltyki, at the mouth of the stream Dobry Kolodez, which flows into the Oka River, is the ford Bystroye. This ford is mentioned in the Book of the Great Drawing of 1627 and is known for the fact that in 1571, the Tatars of Khan Devlet-Girey crossed it during their campaign to Moscow.

The village of Spasskoe with the Transfiguration Church is first mentioned in 1734. At that time, there were 141 parish households by the church. In the 18th century, the village was part of the Kromsk district and was called "Spasskoe, on Dobry Kolodez." For some time, it belonged to P.B. Sheremetev, and later passed to Count Saltykov, which gave the village its second name.

The original wooden church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was located in the area of Dobry Kolodez and burned down in 1787. In its place, another wooden church, built in 1791, was purchased from landowner Anna Alexeyevna Khitrova in the village of Nikolsk, Orlovsky district, and was dismantled in 1895 after the construction of a new stone church.

The existing cold church in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord with a wooden bell tower was built between 1871 and 1886 with funds from parishioners according to the design of the diocesan architect. Due to a lack of funds, only the central dome was erected out of the five planned. The interior work and iconostasis were carried out by the Orlov merchant Nikolai Vasilyevich Khlebnikov. The main altar was consecrated on February 17, 1891, the right chapel in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the left in the name of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on November 2 and 3, 1892. In the 1910s, according to local residents, a stone bell tower was built.

In the 19th century, the church housed an antimins consecrated by the Most Reverend Apollos (1788-1789) and an ancient icon of the Kazan Mother of God. Since 1890, a church chronicle was maintained at the church. In 1892, at the village cemetery in the village of Ageevka, 7 versts from the village, parishioners built a wooden chapel, which has not survived to this day.

In 1896, a one-class church school was built near the church from the wood left over from the old church. In the 1920s, a new building was erected on the site of the old school, which has survived to this day. In the 1930s, the church was closed.