This photo collection features four churches designed by architect Vladimir Christianovich Nemkin, best known to Kharkiv residents as the architect behind the Ozeryanska Church on Poltavskyi Shliakh Street and the Kazanska Church on Lysa Hora. But in addition to the churches in Kharkiv itself, he designed numerous churches throughout the Kharkiv Governorate. Vladimir Nemkin primarily built churches in the Neo-Byzantine style.

The Boris and Gleb Church in the village of Vodyane, Kharkiv Oblast, was built in 1905. The funds for its construction were donated by landowner Klyuchareva and Professor Zelenogorsky of Kharkiv University. It was closed in 1932. After World War II, the church was in a state of disrepair.

Restored in the early 1990s with donations from a local agricultural firm by the Kharkiv branch of the “Ukrproektrestavratsiya” Research Institute (designed by V. Novgorodov, V. Lopatko, and G. Cherkashina). Services resumed in 1994, and in 1997 it became part of the Boris and Gleb Monastery.

The Church of the Ascension in Trostyanets’, Sumy Oblast, was built between 1905 and 1913. Nemkin’s design was revised and completed by the diocesan architect, Vladimir Pokrovsky.

St. Nicholas Church, built in 1914, Lebedyn, Sumy Oblast

St. John the Theologian Church, Nyzy Village, Sumy Oblast, built in 1910.