Наконец то написал : In Northern Russia, the house will always have built wooden, and not because they are not able to build the stone, but because wooden house warmer microclimate of it better than stone, and, well, because in Russia forest enough. All the matter in the thermal conductivity of wood and stone. Tree from one end of may burn (the temperature of this site will be about +300 degrees Celsius), and the other end of the logs you are free to keep a hand. With the stone is not possible: if the stone from one end of the heat up to +200 degrees, then to the other end you will not be able to touch you. Brick on the degree of thermal conductivity is also not far away from the stone. If our ancestors lived in stone castles, as the angles and Saxons, then us would not be in the light as ancestors in our climate simply died would have caught a cold and died out. Therefore, a wooden house is a condition of life in the Russian North. You can, of course, in the North live in яранге of hides, skins or in a plague, but then you're not Russian, it will be quite a different culture. To live in яранге, it is necessary to reindeer herd (source skins) was a very great - not less than 30 deer per person.
So, Russia is a wooden houses, wooden architecture, wooden culture. It is no accident and its currency, the ruble, we call wooden. Wood in Russia made houses and ships, wagons, ploughs, harrows, tubs, cups, spoons, toys,... of God churches also were built of wood. It is no coincidence the most respectable professions in Russia were considered as carpentry and blacksmith's work, and only on the third place stood a craft pottery pottery.
You can talk about the traditional Russian type house, which, most likely, is connected with ethnicity Varyags Russ. This type is available as a broad band from the coast of the White Sea along the river Onega, Vaga, Northern Dvina river Sukhona, Согожи, Kostroma, Volga from Uglich to Nizhny Novgorod. To the South of this type reaches the latitude of Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.
Second, we call it the Uro-Finnish type, spread in the Republic of Komi (the basin of the river Vychegda), partly in the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions, as well as in Karelia. In the ethnographic literature, this type of houses called северорусским.
Third I conditionally call Slovenian type. This house with a gable roof четырехстенные or пятистенные, but if пятистенные, a notch (the fifth wall is located along the house, and across, and the facade of the house of cut is not visible. This type is widely spread in the Novgorod, Pskov and Western part of Tver regions, as well as in the Smolensk region, in the South of Karelia and in a little narrow strip to the South of Moscow.