The Church of the Nativity of Christ, one of many in the Posad, was founded at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. In a report by the Kolomna city governor Major Durnovo from 1786, it is mentioned that the church was built in 1725 with funds from Kolomna merchants Ivan Ivanovich Ushakov and Vasily Fyodorovich Vetoshnikov. The church had two warm chapels: the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Warrior, with a refectory and bell tower, surrounded by a stone fence erected in 1768 through the efforts of General Auditor Pyotr Kirillovich Khlebnikov. It was a typical Posad church in the early Baroque style of "octagon on square" with a tent-like bell tower. On the 1778 plan of Kolomna, created by architect M. F. Kazakov, the church is shown as stone, with a refectory and bell tower. The previous decorations included "butterflies" on the octagon, at the corners of the square, and on the rounded three-part apse. In 1809, at the expense of merchant Afanasy Akimovich Shevlyagin, a chapel was arranged in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, and two years later he donated 1000 rubles for its maintenance. For the Shevlyagin family, the church was like a family chapel, and family members were buried within its enclosure. The first known rector, John Ilyin, was a church censor who monitored superstitions and heresies. In 1870, a large warm refectory in the form of a spacious hall was built between the church and the bell tower. The modern Nativity Church combines classical style with elements of Baroque and is topped with an onion dome. To the west, a three-tiered pseudo-Gothic bell tower with a high dome and spire adjoined the church. The church had three altars: the Nativity of Christ in the main church and two in the warm refectory, the southern altar for the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the northern altar for the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On Christmas 1908, the church was re-consecrated after repairs funded by the widow Maria Nikolaevna Shevlygina. All icons were adorned with silver vestments, and the altar with embossed vestments gilded. The vestment on the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God was decorated with precious stones. The walls were covered with paintings in warm tones with gilding. More than 100,000 rubles were spent on the church's decoration, making it one of the richest churches in the city. Maria Nikolaevna Shevlygina was buried in the church cemetery next to her husband. In the late 1920s, the church was closed, and its relics were lost. In the 1930s, the bell tower was dismantled to the first tier, and the dome of the church was demolished. The Shevlyagin crypt was destroyed, and the graves were desecrated. Initially, a gym was set up in the church, then a workshop, and from 1953, it housed educational workshops for the artillery school. Restoration of the church began in 1997, with the altars of the refectory restored and new iconostases created. The dome was restored above the rotunda, and memorial plaques with the names of fallen soldiers were installed on the western wall. Currently, the church building is an attached church of the Epiphany Church of Kolomna. An agreement on cooperation has been concluded between the Epiphany Church and the command of the artillery school. Regular services are held in one of the chapels, and on Saturdays, a memorial service is conducted for fallen soldier graduates. Clergy hold meetings with military personnel. During festive days, prayers are offered, and the priest delivers congratulations. On August 29, 1999, Patriarch Alexy II visited the Kolomna branch of the university, for which a memorial plaque was installed in the church. The Patriarch gifted the church an icon of the Nativity of Christ.