Pokrovsky Cathedral is the oldest surviving building in the city. It was built in 1689 and is a baroque three-domed church, set on a warm winter church characteristic of Russian church architecture. The upper, cold church is surrounded by a gallery and was united by a "gulbisch" with a hipped bell tower. The patterned brick platbands neighbour the multi-profile cornices with a small outrigger, the belt of rectangular hollows is supplemented with images of the sun. The harmony of volumes growing out of each other, easily ascending upwards, neighbours with severe, heavy forms of the bell tower, reminiscent of a fortress tower.
During the Great Patriotic War the building was badly damaged. In the early 90's restoration of the cathedral began and now it is transferred to the disposal of the Kharkiv church diocese. Now there is a functioning Orthodox church here.
