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One of the oldest city buildings, architectural monument of the XVIII century built in 1770–1777.

In 1787, while travelling from Saint Petersburg to the Crimea, the Empress Catherine II stayed in the Palace. The imperial throne had been kept there for a while before it was sent to St. Petersburg at the order of the Emperor Paul I.

Later, the building served as the governor’s residence. In 1804, after partial reconstruction executed by the architect Ye. Vasiliev, the Palace was transferred to the ownership of Kharkiv University.

Its prototype is believed to be the En Route Imperial Palace in Veliky Novgorod.

It is currently the main building of the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogical Academy.

The building of the Central Scientific Library of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University was erected in 1903. During the pre-revolutionary period the building also housed the University Library. The architect of the building was the alumnus of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts V. Velichko, who since 1895 was architect of Kharkiv academic district and the University.

Former University building built by architects Ye. Vasiliev and I. Vatelet in 1823–1831. It is executed in Classicism style. The architectural sophistication of the former Governor`s Palace is contrasted here to the laconism of the hexastyle Ionian portico with with the pediment raised on the broad stairs. Its columns are seen to advantage against the shaded loggia. The decoration-free ceiling emphasizes the grandeur of the entrance to the temple of science.

The building housed the Library, the Observatory, the University Chapel, and the Assembly Hall. The Temple was adorned with icons executed by V. Borovikovsky and A. Venetsianov.

During the Great Patriotic War the building was seriously damaged, the Temple dome was destroyed. In 1950s the architect O. Okulitch-Karazin reconstructed the building. In 1963 it became the Pioneer movie theater (since 1973 —renamed into the Yunost movie theater). In 1990s the movie theater was closed to house the Ukrainian Cultural Centre Yunist.

The building of the School of Law of Kharkiv Imperial University was erected by architect V. Velichko in 1909.

It is currently one of the academic buildings of the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogical Academy.

For reference. The history of the School of Law of Kharkiv University originates in 1804, when the Division of Moral and Political Sciences is created to soon evolve into the School.

The building was erected in 1929. Its architects were S. Serafimov and M. Zandberg-Serafimova. It is executed in the same style as the State Industry House (Derzhprom). Its project was called Catch Up and Outrun, and the building itself was the tallest secular building in Kharkiv till the Great Patriotic War.

In 1950s the building underwent complete overhaul: the wings were added, the passages connecting them and the tower were walled up, the yard from the side of Shevchenko Park was closed.

In 1955 the building was transferred to the ownership of Kharkiv University to mark its 150th anniversary.

What catches the eye inside the building is the stained-glass window of central staircase, and the monumental paintings in the Assembly Hall lobby (painters: H. Tyshchenko, A. Pronin).

The construction of the modern Northern University building began in 1929 and was over after the Great Patriotic War (in 1954). It was originally intended to house the Ukrainian SSR Government, then it was transferred to the ownership of the Center of Agricultural Management of Ukraine.

In 1946 it housed Marshall L. Govorov Military Engineering Radio-Technical Academy for Air Defence.

In 2005 the building was transferred to the ownership of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University to mark its 200th anniversary.

In 2008 the building was used in shooting the French film Farewell Dossier. The former Military Academy building represented the General Headquarters in Moscow.

The monument to the founder Kharkiv University is one of the first monuments in Kharkiv. The clay model of the statue design was ordered from St. Petersburg sculptor I. Andrealetti, and the model of the pedestal design — from Academician of Architecture O. Beketov. The authors portrayed Vasyl Karazin addressing the city community on September 1, 1802 when he justified the necessity to found Kharkiv University.

The monument was solemnly opened on June 20, 1907.

Erected in 2010 in front of the Northern University Building.

Dmytro Bahalii was a distinguished historian, public figure, member of the State Council atthe Academy of Sciences and Universities, Kharkiv University President (1906–1910), Kharkiv city mayor (1914–1917), one of the first Ukrainian academicians, author of a number of fundamental works on the history of Kharkiv, Sloboda Ukraine, and Kharkiv University.

Erected in 2010 in front of the Northern University Building.

Aleksandr Lyapunov was a distinguished mathematician, mechanician, academician of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (since 1901), foreign corresponding member of Paris Academy of Sciences (since 1916), Head of Kharkiv Mathematical Society (since 1899), founder of the stability theory of a dynamical system, author of studies in mechanics and mathematical analysis.

The sculpture erected in 1999 is dedicated to Kharkiv University students who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War volunteered for the army. Almost 300 Kharkiv student battalion troopers were killed in battles near Bila Tserkva. The students’ heroic deed is depicted in Oles Honchar’s book Man and Weapons.

The initiative to erect the monument belongs to Kharkiv students of late 1970s — early 1980s.

The granite pedestal bears five bronze figures (four male students and a girl). The boys are going to the front. One of them is saying goodbye to his girl, another one is turning round as if bidding farewell to his past life.