The Kharkiv Agricultural Experimental Station—is located at Heroes of Kharkiv Avenue, 142. It was built between 1909 and 1911 by Zdislaw Harmanski and Yevhen Serdyuk in the Ukrainian Art Nouveau style.

The experimental station was founded in 1908. The station’s first director was Professor Pyotr Vasilyevich Budrin. In 1913, the station became a department of the Kharkiv Regional Agricultural Experimental Station, and its director was plant breeder Vasily Yakovlevich Yuryev, after whom it was later named.

Pre-WWI buildings are extremely rare in the Novy Domy neighborhood—large-scale development there did not begin until the late 1950s, while the agricultural research station had been built 50 years earlier in a field on the eastern outskirts of the city.

Trapezoidal windows, doors, and stepped towers are typical features of Ukrainian Art Nouveau

The original doors, featuring a pattern characteristic of Ukrainian Art Nouveau (triangles made of grapevines), have been preserved.

Today, the V.Y. Yuryev Institute of Plant Growing of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine is located here. A similar breeding station, designed by the same architect, E. Serdyuk, was built in 1911 in the village of Opytne in the Chernihiv region.

The complex of buildings at the Kharkiv Breeding Station, which is a designated historic landmark, also includes a residential building located beyond its current grounds at Heroes of Kharkiv Avenue, 144/1.