About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Nazarova I.V. – candidate of architecture, associate professor E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 |
| Title of the article | To a question of creation of the sentry cities of the Volga-Kamya region of the middle of XVIth-XVIIth centuries |
| Abstract. | The majority of the cities of the Volga-Kama of XVIth-XVIIIth centuries can be referred to a type of small sentry fortresses with wooden constructive structure. Only the Kazan Kremlin had a wooden and stone structure at the end of the XVIth century. Wood isn not a durable material therefore nowadays medieval sentry cities of the Volga-Kama are almost completely lost. For a research of the medieval cities of the Volga-Kama the author has carried out the analysis of historical and architectural, archival and graphic sources of XVIth-XVIIIth centuries. The basic planning, composite and constructive principles of construction of the fortified cities of the Volga-Kama are revealed. Within the declared question the ancient system of a construction of the Russian cities is analyzed. Creation of the Volga-Kama cities of XVIth-XVIIIth centuries conformed to fortification requirements of this period. No city was erected without fortifications. At this time the city and fortress had identical concepts. |
| Keywords. | patrol, fort, hail, tower, territory of Posad, settlement, plan, composition, design. |
| For citations: | Nazarova I.V. To a question of creation of the sentry cities of the Volga-Kamya region of the middle of XVIth-XVIIth centuries // Izvestiya KGASU. 2016. №4(38) P.35-43. |
