St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral

For a long time, ministers of the cathedral have kept the banner of Yermak Timofeyevich, the Cossack Ataman who conquered Siberia.

May 26–27, 1840 Archpriest Dmitry Ponomarev consecrated two thrones of a warm church, in the name of George the Victorious and Simeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess.

[1] Donations of Siberian Cossack troops and Omsk citizens formed the financial basis of the construction.

There is the hemispherical dome on a cylindrical drum with round-headed windows above the centric temple with Doric porticos.

The dome and spire were painted green (and have the same color nowadays) Copper crosses were donated by a rich manufacturer Yakovlev.

Crosses were gilded with pure gold at the Upper Iset factory, owned by the donor.

The western facade has the form of a portico with four Dorian half-columns, the entrance is flanked by niches.