Church of Nicholas in Rubleny Gorod, Eastern Orthodox church in Rubleny Gorod, Yaroslavl, Russia

The Church of Nicholas in Rubleny Gorod is a small, inactive Orthodox church on the Kotoroslnaya Embankment, built in 1695 in the late Yaroslavl style. Its cold summer church, warm winter chapel and bell tower form a single structure, with a pointed tent roof, slender drums and small spherical domes. A covered porch on octagonal posts stands on the south side.

The church's first documentary mention is in the 1646 census book of the Gorodovaya sotnya; tradition links its origin to the founding of Yaroslavl. The present building was erected in 1695 on the site of a dismantled wooden church, funded by parishioners, most of them shipbuilders whose yards stood nearby on the Kotorosl. Damaged by artillery fire in 1918, it was restored by 1920 but closed by the Soviet authorities in 1922; a 1924 windstorm toppled the damaged central dome, which was only restored in 1952.

The name refers to the Rubleny Gorod, the old timber-walled fortress where the church stands. In the 19th century a chapel with a venerated Smolensk icon of the Mother of God, taken from the dismantled Zelenaya tower, was attached to the church in Podzelenye. A particle of the robe of the Mother of God was kept here in a silver reliquary.

The church stands on the Kotoroslnaya Embankment in the former Rubleny Gorod, the wooden-walled kremlin of Yaroslavl. Since 1980 the building has housed the restoration department of the Yaroslavl Art Museum, so it is not open as a working church; visits depend on the department's activity. The open porch on octagonal posts, roofed with a gable, is attached to the bell tower on the south side.

The church served as a model for many rural churches across the Yaroslavl region. Since 1980 it has housed the restoration department of the Yaroslavl Art Museum, so the building is not open for worship but used as a working conservation space.