In addition to the cathedral, the monastery complex includes the seminary, Kharkiv episcopal residence, and the Church of the Mother of God Ozerianska.

The first wooden church was built in the first half of the XVII century and consecrated in the honour of Intercession of the Theotokos.

The stone church was designed in a traditional Russian way — three-domed basilica placed on a warm ‘winter’ temple.

[1] In 1726 the bishop Epiphanius Tikhorsky [ru] and the field marshal Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn established the Intercession Monastery, Kharkiv [uk].

The monastery complex included a collegium, the first higher education establishment in Kharkiv.