In Kursk, the building of the former women's diocesan school, now a branch of the Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense, is of significant architectural interest.

The school for girls was originally opened in 1866 on Dvoryanskaya Street. With the increase in the number of students, there arose a need for a more spacious building. A construction committee was formed to erect a modern educational institution that met Western standards. The committee sought assistance from the Main Architectural Society of the country.

In 1906, the Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Architects, on behalf of the construction commission, announced a competition for the design of the new women's diocesan school building in Kursk.

The building project was developed by architect-artist Nikolai Mikhailovich Grushetsky (facades) and civil engineer Vladimir Grigoryevich Slesarev (master plan, floor plans, sections).

Construction was completed in 1911. In 1914, during World War I, the building was converted into a military hospital and remained so until the October Revolution.

In the 1920s, it housed the District Soviet-Party School named after N.I. Bukharin.

In 1946, the building was transferred to the Kursk Suvorov Military School. The redevelopment project was designed by Oryol architect Igor Anatolyevich Ivanov, who was then working as the senior architect of the Voronezh Military Project.

The Kursk Suvorov cadets occupied the building in 1954, but in 1957 the school moved to Ussuriysk. The building remained under the military department's jurisdiction, and a research institute was established there, which still operates today.