Mentions of the still wooden Church of Spasa Preobrazheniya na Gorodu first appear in the chronicles of the 15th century. During the great fire in 1658, it burned down, and a stone church was erected in its place. Its exterior resembles the Church of Ioanna Zlatousta in Korovniki, as it was built after its model. In 1693, in less than a month, the walls of the Church of Spasa Preobrazheniya na Gorodu were covered with frescoes.
Over time, the church was expanded and rebuilt, adding chapels and renewing the icon painting. In 1918, sad times began for the church. At first it was badly damaged during the White Guard uprising, but the parishioners managed to raise funds for restoration work fairly quickly. However, after 1926 the parish was closed, and the church was handed over to the local history museum.
For a long time it housed storage rooms, and only with the start of the 1990s did they gradually begin to restore the church: cracks were sealed, the facades were renovated, and gilded crosses were placed on the domes. In July 2003, the Church of Spasa Preobrazheniya na Gorodu came under the authority of the Yaroslavl diocese.
