The Church of Sts. Constantine and Helena, located at Velyka Panasivska Street, 203A, is perhaps one of the most beautiful landmarks in Sortyrovka, a neighborhood of Kharkiv in the city’s northwest.

The architect of the church was Vladimir Nemkin. Although his greatest masterpiece—the St. Nicholas Church on the square of the same name—was destroyed in the 1930s, many other churches built according to his designs have been preserved or restored in Kharkiv and the Sloboda Ukraine.

The Church of Sts. Constantine and Helena, built in 1907, is designed in an eclectic style. With its “carved” elements, the shape of the central structure, and the hipped roof of the bell tower, it bears a distant resemblance to the churches of the Moscow Tsardom from the 16th–17th centuries.