The city is first mentioned in chronicles from 1335 as Sol Galitskaya. This is related to the Rostov prince Fyodor Vasilyevich, who founded the Resurrection Monastery here. This event is also mentioned in the monastery's chronicle, known as the "Chronicle of the Resurrection Soligalich Monastery." It mentions that the Galician prince Fyodor Semyonovich saw a fiery pillar in the north and heard thunder on Easter night. Considering this a sign, he set off north after the holidays but got lost in the forests of the Shamakhov hills. A hermit monk pointed him to the place where the fiery pillar appeared, and the prince built a wooden church of the Resurrection of Christ there, and later a monastery. According to legend, in this monastery, which was once called a "lavra," the Moscow saint Jonah, originally from the Soligalich district, began his monastic journey.

From 1660 to 1669, the first stone church of Soligalich, the Resurrection Cathedral, was built on the site of the burned wooden church. In 1681, the Epiphany Church was built nearby. The tent-shaped bell tower is connected to the Resurrection Cathedral through the refectory. It had a bell with a Latin inscription: "Praise God, built by Assverus Koster in Amsterdam in 1631 for Soley." Both churches were surrounded by a stone fence with iron grilles. Next to the monastery was a stone building of the former spiritual school.

A feature of the monastery was the ancient altar of the main altar of the Resurrection Cathedral, made of stone and brick in the form of four pillars. The main shrine was considered to be the altar silver gilded cross with the relics of princes Fyodor and Konstantin of Yaroslavl.

Currently, the monastery is abandoned, its walls, cells, and services have not survived, the interiors of the cathedral and church are lost, and the bell tower is in an emergency state.