Starting from there traditional buildings as locally architecture made from local materials resist the climate and responsive to it.

Irkutsk is famous for its wooden architecture. It has preserved many of monuments including ancient log structures. Some of the log structures have presently been restored. Almost all of the wooden houses are privately owned. Siberian wooden houses of course differ from the log structures of the European Russia.

 The art of constructing wooden houses in this part of Russia passed through 3 well marked stages: