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This article is concerned with problems of stability assessment of slopes that are part of the interaction scope of historical natural‐technical systems (HNTS). The need of using the new methods is caused by increasing development of landslide processes near the architecture monuments. Examples include landslides in the Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Mozhaisk Kremlins, on the northern slope of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery, the western slope of the Savvino‐Storozhevsky Monastery, the southern slope of the Bogolyubsky Monastery, on the slopes of the Spaso‐ Evfimiyev and Vasiliyevsky Monasteries in the Suzdal region, Pechorsky Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod. The temples and monasteries of Russia are unique monuments of history and architecture, treasures of the cultural heritage of the state and a place of pilgrimage and reverence for many people. Many of them are protected by UNESCO.