Information from their Facebook group:

Karaims settled in Kharkiv in the 1940s. The first kenasa in this city appeared in 1853 in Podilsky Lane, in the former house of the Izmailovs. The Kharkov Karaim prayer house was approved by the government in 1873. 36 Karaim families contributed funds for its construction. The modern building was erected in 1891 – 1893 according to the project of the architect Boris Semenovich Pokrovsky on the corner of Podilsky Lane and Kuznechna Street. In 1863, the fulfillment of the gazan’s duties was entrusted to the merchant, Rabbi Avraham Capon. In 1871, Moshe Markovych Sultanskyi became the gazan of Kharkiv kenasa. From 1899 to March 1917, Mordechai Eliezerovich Fenerly served as senior gazan, and from the summer of 1917 until the closing of the kenasa in 1929, the spiritual mentor of Kharkiv Karaites was gazan Yakiv Borysovich Shamash. The Karaim community ceased to exist in 1929 and was revived only in 1995. In 2006, the kenasa building was returned to the Karaims. Despite the stormy times and losses, in today’s changing world, Kharkiv Karaims carefully preserve their cultural and religious traditions, remembering the words of the Holy Scriptures: “Happy is the people whose Eternal One is their God.” (Tehillim, 144: 15)

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