A House in Kunara Village as a Typical Residential Building in the Mountainous Urals Early in the 18th Century

Abstract

The paper draws attention to the problem of preserving wooden architecture. The paper examines one of the rare surviving examples of a traditional residential building in the village of Kunara in the Sverdlovsk region.
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to establish the conformity of the residential building with the main parameters of the most massive housing in towns and villages of the Gorny Urals, namely Demidov factories, since the building belongs to the territory historically associated with the Nevyansky Demidov factory in the early 18th century.
Research findings: The paper describes the preserved wooden four-wall house under a malebed roof with a log porch contains all the signs of an apartment building common to towns and factory towns of the Urals of the 18th century. Given the wide temporal prevalence of this building, it can be tentatively dated by the first half of the 18th and mid-19th centuries. Due to a significant proportion of the loss of analogues, the building in Kunar acquires the features of a unique historical and cultural monument, which must be preserved.