The Houses of «Stolypin» Migrants in the Eastern Siberia: from a Hut to a Manor

This article is devoted to the question of building houses in the villages that were settled in the Eastern Siberia during the Stolypin Agra rian Reform (1906—1917). Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ukraine, Belarus, and western districts of Russia left their motherland forever and went to far-away, unknown Siberia. The main purpose of this movement was to fundamentally change their lives for the better. In the thick forest, immigrants built houses, churches, and schools, and one hundred years later several hundred of these picturesque villages are left to us as our heritage. In these villages, descendants of the immigrants continue to live by the strong farmers’ way.