Sound, Preview - Taras Petrenko / taraseq_petrenko Our instagram- / life_in._.kharkiv Our telegram - https://t.me/life_in_kharkiv Hello friends, in this video you will learn about several historical buildings in Kharkov that have not survived to this day. Nikolsky or Nikolaevsky Temple Metropol and several houses at the beginning of Pushkinskaya. And you will also see our short review of the Nikolsky shopping center. St. Nicholas Cathedral, or Nikolaevskaya Church - a five-domed Orthodox church in Kharkov, built in 1896 on Nikolaevskaya Square on the site of an old stone church from 1770. The cathedral was built in the Byzantine style according to the design of the Kharkov diocesan architect Vladimir Nemkin, being his main work. Consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas of Myra. Demolished in 1930. The first wooden St. Nicholas Church was built at the same time as Kharkov was founded and no later than 1655. It occupied a site right next to the wall of the Kharkov fortress. In 1733, the wooden church burned down. In 1764-1770, a stone church was built on this site. This structure was very similar to another stone church in the city, the Pokrovsky Cathedral, built in 1689, which has survived to this day. A number of Kharkov authors and researchers believe that this cathedral was given as a model to the master of the St. Nicholas Church. In the mid-19th century, a separate bell tower was demolished on Kharkov's Nikolaevskaya Square, as a result of which the appearance of the St. Nicholas Church changed, but, nevertheless, the building remained "an original structure, one of the few monuments of Kharkov antiquity." In 1886, the dilapidated church was dismantled and replaced by a capital five-domed cathedral designed by architect Vladimir Nemkin. Construction work began in 1887 and was completed by 1896. In 1930, the cathedral was blown up and demolished. According to the official version, the demolition of the temple was carried out in connection with the construction of a tram line turning from the square onto Pushkinskaya Street (before that, trams ran from Moskovsky Prospekt through the steep climb of Korolenko Lane; this tram line was liquidated in 2008.) The church was three-tiered and three-lobed, its plan consisted of a center - an octagon, an altar and a babinets - hexagons. All sections of the church are faceted, crowned with gable octagonal domes, with each top having two light octagons. The architectural decoration of the facades - cornices, intercepted by rings of semi-columns, window frames - are similar to those in the Pokrovsky Cathedral, executed under the influence of the forms of Moscow architecture of the second half of the 17th century (Naryshkin Baroque). The tops of the domes, as evidenced by the panorama of Kharkov of 1787, were close in shape to the domes of the Pokrovsky Cathedral, during the addition of a refectory in the pseudo-Gothic style to the church in 1833-1835 they were rebuilt: triangular pediments appeared above each facet of the octagon, flattened forms of the domes and spire