The Kursk Root Hermitage, also the Korennaya Hermitage, or Monastery of the Birth of the Theotokos "The Wonderworking Kursk Root Icon of Our Lady of the Sign" is a monastic community located in the village of Svodoba, about 21 miles (30 kilometers) from the city of Kursk, Russia. The monastery, consisting of the hermitage for men and a skete for for women, was built upon the site where the Kursk Root icon was found and the Life-bearing Spring that arose at the place of its discovery.