On the eastern slope of the Ataman Mountains, near the temple of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow," there is a cave monastery created in the 1820s by ascetics modeled after the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Among them were a peasant from the village of Trimikhailovka, now Sukhorechka, Nikita Loskutov, Cossack Ivan Ivanovich Gnedyshev with his companion Timofey, and several people from Buzuluk. Archive documents testify that on June 29, 1875, a conversation took place in these caves between L.N. Tolstoy and the elders who founded the monastery. It is from these underground cells that the history of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Buzuluk Men's Monastery began.

Today, the monastery caves consist of two winding tunnels, several rooms, and a vertical well. All structures, except for the end rooms, are made of red brick. The destroyed parts of the vaults and walls have been restored with modern bricks. The tunnels start from a ledge on the mountainside and go deep with a slight incline, their height is about two meters, and width half a meter. The distance between the entrances is approximately 20 meters. Near the entrances, the tunnels converge, and there is an opening in the wall between them. In the left tunnel, there is a vertical well connecting the caves with the temple on the surface. Previously, there was a spiral staircase in the well, traces of its steps are visible on the walls. The height of the well is about 15 meters. Further, there is a room with exits to both tunnels; it is possible that there was an altar here, as traces of crucifixes and icons are visible on the walls. The vault of the room was damaged in the 1930s and has recently been restored with bricks. Near this room in the left tunnel, there is a three-flight staircase leading to another room built during the restoration of the caves. From the altar, the tunnels diverge, and there is a transverse passage between them. Each tunnel ends in a room without brick cladding. These rooms are about two meters long, and their width and height correspond to the sizes of the tunnels. Traces of tools used in the creation of the caves are visible on the walls. It is assumed that these rooms served as cells for hermits. Currently, the monastery is being revived by the efforts of Buzuluk hieromonk Vitaly Klimov, the rector of the Holy Transfiguration Church in Buzuluk.