Byzantine tradition. The church reaches toward the sky from a low cross-shaped podklet (ground floor), followed by a prolonged chetverik (octagonal body, and...

senii, klet (kletka), komnata, on the lower tier there was a podklet, a residential podklet, podyzbitsa, anbar, pogreb. A new stage in the development of...

log houses built during this period. The transition to houses on high podklets and full-fledged two-storey houses began in Veliky Novgorod during the...

porch with a canopy. The building is a log cabin of Tian Shan fir, with a podklet [ru] on a stone foundation. The walls are plastered and whitewashed. The...