A common form of activity for the region’s public organizations in providing assistance to the adult population was the practice of opening and maintaining charitable institutions intended for the poor and the semi-destitute. The most widespread were night shelters.
In 1909, in Yekaterinodar, the “Society for the Fight Against Beggary” was founded. It helped all low-income and homeless residents of the city by providing them with a place to sleep, food, and any other support. At 64 Kommunarov Street, the building constructed in 1911 still stands to this day; it served as the “Shelter for the Needy” of the same Society for the Fight Against Beggary. The plot of land and the money for construction were donated by Tatyana Tsymlyantseva, the daughter of a yesaul of the Kuban Cossack Host. A shelter for the needy was opened in the two-story building, admitting both children and adults. It was designed for 70 people. A school for orphaned children also operated there, attended by about 25 boys and girls. At the end of 1911, a house church was established on the second floor of the building in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos.
The shelter existed until Soviet power was established in 1920. Over the following many decades, the building housed communal apartments.