Ascension Church, Eastern Orthodox church in Kirovski district, Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Ascension Church is an Eastern Orthodox religious building in the Kirovski district of Yekaterinburg featuring Russian Baroque design. The brick construction displays fine masonry and traditional architectural elements characteristic of this style.

A wooden Ascension Church was founded in May 1770 and consecrated that same year, using material from a dismantled Epiphany church. After it fell into disrepair, a stone two-storey church was begun in 1792; its lower Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos was consecrated in 1801 and the upper Ascension Church in 1818. Closed in 1926, the building held a school and later a museum, and services resumed on 15 February 1991.

The hill and district take their name from the church. The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was kept here and hidden during the Soviet years. In 1995 the Kazan chapel briefly served Old Believers. The church appears in Soviet films such as "Ugryum-Reka" and "Privalov's Millions".

The church stands on Voznesenskaya Hill, which takes its name from it, in the Kirovski district. The building is surrounded by a wall put up in 1899. Services resumed in 1991; visitors should time their visit outside liturgy and dress modestly.

During the Second World War, part of the Hermitage collection evacuated from Leningrad was stored inside the closed church. Its largest bell, confiscated in the Soviet period, was used in theatre and ballet performances and after 1991 was given not back to the church but to the Holy Trinity Cathedral.