Воскресенский собор, Destroyed Orthodox cathedral site in Yelets, Russia

The Resurrection Cathedral was a two-storey, pillarless Orthodox church in Yelets, divided into three parts. Its lower warm storey, built of limestone blocks, had sunk into the ground almost to the windows and held the altar of Archangel Michael; the upper cold storey held the altar of the Resurrection of Christ. A three-tier stone bell tower, authorised in 1788, was completed by 1797.

A wooden Church of the Resurrection was first recorded in Yelets in 1593, with its clergy listed that year. After a fire in 1703 its altar was moved to the nearby Archangel Church, where a stone-and-wood structure with the Resurrection altar on the upper wooden floor was built at the expense of the landowner Yevsevy Bekhteyev. In 1931 the church was demolished by the Soviet authorities.

The name refers to the Resurrection of Christ, and the church kept the name "old cathedral" for Yelets residents even after it became an ordinary parish church. Its upper cold floor held the altar of the Resurrection, while the warm lower floor was consecrated to Archangel Michael. In 1996, excavations at the site of the altar uncovered several graves from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The cathedral no longer exists: it stood at the crossing of today's Oktyabrskaya and Kommunarov streets on Red Square, where the monument to Yelets's 850th anniversary now stands. Excavations in 1996 uncovered the central part of its foundations and several 17th- and 18th-century burials. Look for the ground at the monument's base.

In 1996, archaeological digs during construction of the 850th-anniversary monument of Yelets uncovered the central part of the Resurrection Church's foundations and several burials from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 1940s and early 1950s a monument to Stalin stood on the site of the old cathedral's altar.