On July 16, 1912, the last pre-revolutionary church, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on Lysaya Gora, was consecrated in Kharkiv on the day of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the liberation of Moscow and Russia from Polish invaders by the people's militia led by Minin and Pozharsky in 1612. Despite its youth and remoteness from the central streets of Kharkiv, the church had a remarkable fate from the very beginning.

The idea of building the church for the residents of one of the new outskirts of the city belonged to the well-known Kharkiv merchant Konstantin Petrovich Utkin. Being the organizer of the cathedral Assumption Cathedral and the chairman of the committee for the construction of the new Annunciation Church, Utkin took on the task with experience, investing significant personal funds. The project of the church in the Russian-Byzantine style was developed by the Kharkiv diocesan architect Vladimir Khristianovich Nemkin, and the construction was overseen by his colleague, architect Vladimir Nikolayevich Pokrovsky. Interestingly, a group of craftsmen who had built a new church for the men's monastery of the Holy Assumption Sarov Desert in the Nizhny Novgorod province just two years earlier was invited for the construction.

Unfortunately, neither Nemkin nor Utkin saw the completion of their work: the architect of the church passed away in 1908 after a long illness, and Utkin died a year before the construction was finished. Nevertheless, the Kazan Church became the only one in Kharkiv and one of the few in the Kharkiv diocese where services have not ceased since 1912, and the altar icon of the Mother of God has always remained within the walls of the church.

A month before the consecration of the church, a note appeared in the newspaper 'Yuzhny Kray': 'Occupying a wonderful location on a high hill with a steep descent to the east, it creates a charming impression both from the side of the railway and the city, standing out on the horizon with its size and completeness of style. The project of the church belongs to the late diocesan architect Nemkin, who also built the Nikolayevsky Church, and the funds for the construction were provided by the late cathedral elder K.P. Utkin. The completion of the construction and the interior finishing of the church had to be done by his adopted daughter E.K. Utkina, now the chairwoman of the construction committee. The church is fully finished, the iconostasis is installed, made by V.I. Hetman, and the icons were painted in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Church utensils were also purchased from Moscow. The consecration of the new Kazan Church on Lysaya Gora is expected soon. The interior painting of the church has been postponed for technical reasons to the future.'