Features of architectural images of historical industrial cities of Central Russia

The architectural images of the historical cities of central Russia are associated by the overwhelming majority of the population and the professional architectural community with the spaces of Suzdal, Ples, Rostov, with the centers of Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma. However, this region of our country is also a concentration of settlements, where textile and other industries developed intensively at the dawn of the industrial era in the second half of the 19th century. Typological and architectural solutions of industrial buildings that came from England soon acquired their own unique flavor on Russian soil, while preserving the specifics of the artistic image. The construction of both industrial and civil complexes (dormitories – workers’ barracks, hospitals) with schools and public houses included in it had a peculiar community of architectural, compositional and architectural and artistic techniques and radically differed from the traditional small-scale urban development of the late XVIII - first half of the XIX century. The newly emerged planning and spatial principles of their urban planning organization in the historical industrial settlements gave even more specificity to the spaces of these areas. The article shows the main differences and features of the architectural and urban planning organization of the traditional and industrial residential development of the settlements of the region and, accordingly, their historical architectural images.