Abstract

The proposed article considers the current state of housing construction in the Villages of the Dnieper Region. Modern rural architecture was created in the 1950s – 1960s, which is, firstly, a result of the process of modernization residential buildings in the course of growing industrial development of the USSR, and, secondly, if we talk about Halahanivka, resettlement of many families from flooded areas during the construction of Kremenchuk HPP. At the same time, during the building, traditional forms of housing remained, albeit with more modern materials. For example, traditional hipped roofs began to be covered with slate, in rare cases with tiles or iron. The review of this article is based on the example of data from Halahanivka, which belongs to Cherkasy district of Cherkasy region and is subordinated to the Chyhyryn City Council. The author considered the regularity of development of rural house building in the XX–XXI centuries, the characteristic of their appearance (including the basic building materials which are the most common among the local residents today), the comparison of the modern houses with houses of the XIX centuries. The issues considered in this paper are a relevant direction of ethnological science, it highlights the process of transformation from traditional rural house building to modern. Unfortunately, specialized researches of the development of rural house building in the second half of XX–XXI centuries to date, there are almost none, and some of the research presented on this topic do not cover all aspects of this area. So the main sources for our article were the Land Records, which are stored in the Halahanivskyi Starostynskyi District, and materials from the author’s own archives.

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