The Mary Magdalene Desert is a women's Orthodox monastery in Kuban, founded in 1849. It was located in the bend of the Kirpili River between the stanitsas of Rogovskaya and Timashevskaya. The initiative to create the monastery came from Cossack women who approached the military ataman with a request to establish a convent, as many widows and orphans were left after the Turkish war. The acting ataman G. A. Rashpil submitted a petition, which was granted. The monastery quickly developed, and by the early 20th century, it housed up to six hundred people. It was a third-class monastery with 14 stone and adobe buildings, a brick factory, a windmill, two shops, an Orthodox school, and other structures.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the monastery's property was nationalized, and the buildings were transferred to local authorities. In 1920, a commune called 'World Friendship' was organized on its territory.

In 1995, Archimandrite Georgy began the restoration of the monastery. On August 4 of the same year, a women's skete was established in Rogovskaya, which was transformed into the women's Orthodox monastery 'Mary Magdalene Desert' in 1997. The abbess of the monastery is the senior nun Sevastiana (M. Lebedeva).

Today, the monastery occupies three hectares of land. Two churches have been built here: a summer church dedicated to Mary Magdalene and the main church in honor of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, as well as a cell building, an art workshop, and a refectory. The territory of the monastery features a fruit orchard and a vegetable garden.

There are 35 residents in the monastery, who work in the art workshop, tend to the garden and orchard, manage household affairs, and serve the Lord.