The principal Russian Orthodox church of the city, a white-walled cathedral with the classic five gilded onion domes. The current building dates from the late Soviet period — most of the older Orthodox churches in the city were dynamited in the 1930s — but the congregation goes back to the Russian colonial settlements of the 19th century.
The interior is dim, candlelit and heavy with incense, much as you would find in a country church in central Russia. A reminder of how much of Kazakhstan's history has been lived in two religions at once.