Architecture of the South of Russia: from history to modernity

The monograph discusses the processes of the emergence and development of architecture in the regions of the present south of Russia. At the same time, architecture is understood as the unity of the processes of the development of territories, the creation of various types of buildings: residential, public, industrial and others, their artistic-style solutions.
The presented series of essays consistently characterizes the main stages of the history of the architecture of the Kuban, Nizhny Don, the North Caucasus.
The origins of architecture are associated with the appearance of the simplest forms of the dwelling and megalithic structures. The stage of Greek colonization, mainly on the territory of the Northern Black Sea region and Azov, was the main content of the transfer and distribution of urban culture, forms of Greek architecture and the schemes of urban planning organization of resettlement.
During periods of the Middle Ages and the military-administrative development of the Russian Empire of the Nizhny Don, the Steppe Caucasus and the Kuban in the forms of the territorial organization of settlements and architecture, cultural expansions, military-political, ethnic and confessional influences were embodied. This process ended with the addition of the unique forms of the dwelling of the peoples of the North Caucasus, the Cossacks of the Don, the Kuban. Terek.
XVIII - the first half of the 19th century are marked by the influence of classicism and exemplary design. The second half of the 19th and 20th centuries became the time of the prevailing growth of the urban environment in the line of the All -Russian architectural process. The end of the 20th century brought a new wave of architectural polystilism, again caused by radical changes in the socio-political and economic life of the country, the spread of international influences.
The architecture of the region, which embodied the features of the all-Russian architectural process and regional climatic, ethno-territorial and stylistic features, are an integral part of the national heritage of Russia, which is fully included in the treasury of world culture