In the first half of the XIX century. two churches appeared on Khersonskaya Street in Kryukov (now Ivan Prikhodko Street). Among the inhabitants of Kryukov, there was a significant proportion of Old Believers. They moved here in the initial period of the Novorossiysk history of the region, when the government of Catherine II allowed the Old Believers who fled from religious oppression to Western Belarus and Ukraine not only to return to their homeland, but also guaranteed the inviolability of their faith. The overwhelming majority of the Kryukov Old Believers were engaged in trade, among them were very wealthy merchants who generously released their money for various charitable purposes. One of them, the merchant Kushnarev, in 1825, rebuilt his house, located at the very beginning of Khersonskaya Street, near Salt Square, under the Common Faith Church of the Exaltation of the Cross.
He, at his own expense, arranged the iconostasis and provided it with the necessary utensils. The temple turned out to be a success – one-domed, stone, perfectly overlooked from the Dnieper, it was one of the high-rise accents in the silhouette of Kryukov. The church burned several times, but was invariably restored to its original form through the efforts of wealthy parishioners. In 1867, another merchant I. Zubarev, at his own expense, added a three-tiered bell tower to the church, thereby completing the formation of its external appearance.
In 1828, construction was completed and the solemn consecration of the main parish church of Kryukovskaya, Intercession Church, took place. It was located on Bazarnaya Square, approximately on the site of modern residential buildings No. 23 and No. 29 along Prikhodko Street (formerly Khersonskaya Street). It was a five-domed stone church in the Greek style with three altars: the main one in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the two outer ones – St. Nicholas and St. Sion and Anna. The temple was decorated with a three-tier wooden carved gilded iconostasis. In the north-western corner of the fence in 1842, at the expense of officials of the Kremenchug Commissariat Commission, also located on the Market Square, a wooden single-domed chapel with a beautiful carved iconostasis was built in the name of Queen Alexandra. Well fit into the ensemble of the Church of the Intercession and built in 1885, a separate three-tiered bell tower. It was located on the site of the former Teremok kindergarten in Kryukov, at Prikhodko No. 21.
Unfortunately, the Intercession Church, the Exaltation of the Cross Church and the bell tower have not survived to this day. Since they are no longer in the photo of Kryukov in 1941, I think it can be assumed that they were demolished in the 30s during the struggle of the Soviet authorities with religion.
Source: The book “On the streets of old Kremenchug” by A.N. Lushakova, L.I. Evselevsky 2001