Vologda wooden architecture

Hi everyone!

I recently went on a trip. I visited the city of Vologda.

Vologda is an old Russian city. It was founded in 1147. Vologda is one of the cities with a particularly valuable historical heritage. And this is one of the largest cities in the north of Russia.

Today I will show you the Vologda wooden architecture - it delighted me!

Wooden architecture is the hallmark of Vologda. Now about 150 old houses are under state protection.

I did not have the goal of inspecting all the wooden houses of the city, only those that I passed by were captured in the shot, so I could not see some houses of historical value.

Most of the houses that we have seen have common features that are characteristic of the Vologda region. As a rule, these are two-story mansions, where an obligatory element is a balcony-loggia, under which there is a porch. For the decoration of cornices, porches, balconies, platbands in such houses, sawing carving is often used.

Traditional Vologda house on Blagoveshchenskaya street:

And this is a house on Klara Zetkin street:

House of railway employee Konstantin Popov:

This house on the street. Zasodimskogo, 14, was built in 1910 in the Art Nouveau style. Surprisingly, the house has never been restored by professional restorers. Now this is an ordinary residential building and its excellent condition is the merit of the residents.

Gogol Street, a house of the late 19th century, named after the last owner, Dydin's house:

And next to him is the even more elegant house of Tikhanovsky (he is in the first photo):

Uncle Gilyai's house, Chernyshevsky str., 15:

Uncle Gilyai is the nickname of the writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky, who wrote the famous book "Moscow and Muscovites" and who was born in the Vologda region. This house did not belong to the Gilyarovsky family, it is just that now there is the Literary Residence of the Vologda writers, which in honor of the most famous writer of the Vologda region was named the House of Uncle Gilyai.

And the last house that I want to show is a house built at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries and located at 9 Mayakovsky Street:

Thank you all for your attention, comments and supervision!

P.S.:To translate the text into English, I used Google translator. I am sorry for possible mistakes
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