Building of the Noble Assembly, Federal cultural heritage site in Kursk, Russia

The Building of the Noble Assembly is a structure in Kursk featuring three front facades with arched openings, a balcony entrance, and cast-iron balusters adorning its grand staircase. The structure displays Northern European Renaissance architectural elements that shape its appearance at this location.

A theatre with a hall of 26 boxes and a 150-seat gallery, built in 1792 by the Kursk nobility, stood here; it burned down on the night of 30 December 1875. In 1877 the nobles financed a new brick Noble Assembly on the site, and interior work continued after that year. A second fire on 17 October 1892 collapsed the ceilings, and the building was restored to designs by diocesan architect V. G. Slesarev, largely at state expense.

Before 1917 the Great Hall hosted opera performances by M. V. Lentovsky's troupe, and Fyodor Chaliapin sang in the opera Demon there. From 1911 the Kursk-born variety star Nadezhda Plevitskaya performed in the same hall, which could be converted from a concert venue into a ballroom. Sixteen white marble tablets on the choir walls list officers of the Kursk militia of the Crimean War.

The building stands at the corner of Sonina Street (formerly Verkhne-Naberezhnaya) and Endovishchenskaya Street, address Sonina 4. Today it holds the philharmonic's second concert hall and the Sviridov Arts Centre, while the Kursk Garrison Military Court still works there, so entry is limited to concert events and court business.

The building's grand hall held 16 white marble tablets, each 67 by 133 cm, carved with the names of noble officers of the Kursk militia from the Crimean War, plus a grey marble board listing nobles killed or mortally wounded defending Sevastopol on 5 and 7 September 1855.