Lost Architecture of the East frontier

This article talks about lost or destroyed objects that were built at early stages of colonization of the eastern frontier of the Russian Empire. The classification proposed by the author will include three categories: temporary wooden architecture with elements of a “national style” that decorated public spaces (arches, verandas, awnings, landing stages, carved facade decorations of educational institutions, railway stations, etc.); residential buildings of Russian and Ukrainian settlers; dachas, trading posts, estates and castles created by foreign and westernized Russian entrepreneurs (Yankovsky, Startsev, F. Geck, etc). The conclusion says that it is important to reproduce not only individual objects, but the lifestyle of the first colonists who reproduced European civilization patterns “in the wilds of the Ussuri Krai”. The empirical base of the study consists of materials of the expeditions, historical photographs and memoirs.