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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018, 1 (139), 156–170

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.01.156

Received 14.01.2018

TRADITIONAL DWELLING AT THE NORTHWEST OF EASTERN POLISSIA in the late XIX — the middle of XX century (based on materials of the Ripky district of Chernihiv region)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1900-8948

Radovych Roman Bohdanovych, Candidate of Sciences in History, Ph.D, research fellow

in the Department of Historical Ethnology

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue 15,  79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Abstract. Specific peculiarities of housing construction in the northwest of Eastern Polissia are considered on the basis of field ethnographic materials. The research covers territory of the modern Ripky district of Chernihiv region. Attention is focused on the features of planning, engineering and construction technology, construction materials selection, heating devices, interior features and lighting.

 Keywords: Eastern Polissia, building engineering, blockhouse, interior.

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