Small Towns and Historical Settlement Systems in the Strategy of Russia's Revival

In this article, the authors provide scientific evidence of the need to overcome established priorities in the strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation, focused on the preferential development oflarge and major cities, prove the important role of small towns as a necessarylink in agglomerations, their inseparable "genetic" relationship with nearby centers of higher order. It highlights the prospects for identifying, shaping or restoringlocal settlement systems, as well as filling in the missing historical links of the resettlement framework, the sources of which are predetermined by historical "genetic" relationships. On the basis of consistently carried outlong-term studies, the methodology of historical and "genetic" studies of historical settlement and townplanning structure is formulated. The study reveals a variety of forms of settlement of Zaonezhye (river,lake, rural, monastic), the volost character of the territorial structure of Kargopol. The main stages of a three-level analysis of the town planning structure are presented: from settlement to settlement and street; identifying the traditional properties and fundamentals of the historical and "genetic" composition of the entire city and building the spatial-compositional system of architectural ensembles, the "genetically" inherent qualities of the town-planning structure, the spatial scale of the compositional system, the typology of buildings, module, describes the typical methods of the relationship of building and planning, information about the unique traditions of the temple architecture, including construction techniques for the construction of wooden churches, and the characteristics of residential development (scale, spatial solution, proportions), which generally gives rise to the visual image of the city, its "face", and the external manifestation of the town-planning structure reflecting the distinctive traditions of national cultures.