The Peasants’ Land Bank was built to a design by engineer A. Molokin in 1914 on what was then Eparchial Street.

The building is in the Art Nouveau style with Neo-Gothic elements.

Today, the address is Alchevskyh Street, 29.

From 1919 to 1934, it housed the People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment and the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.

After the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was moved to Kyiv, the building retained its educational function – it housed School No. 102.

After the WWII, the Pedagogical Institute moved into this building, as the former Institute for Noble Girls on Sumska Street, where it had been located during the interwar period, was beyond repair.

The façade and dilapidated balconies have since been restored by the Kharkiv branch of the ‘UkrNDIrestavratsiya’ institute (architect V. Novgorodov, engineer V. Fomin).

The building currently houses the main campus of the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.

As a result of a Russian missile strike on 25 November 2024, the building’s stained-glass windows were damaged and subsequently removed.