Wooden architecture

There are a lot of wooden buildings in Ishym that are considered an important architectural ingredient of the town. The most interesting are the merchants’ estates built in XIX-XX centuries. The merchant class would stick to a patriarchal way of life and believed that wooden houses were more sound and conventional. At the same time the merchants, being acquainted with stone architecture of the capital, would try to introduce some decorative elements of the latter into local wooden architecture. Such aesthetic demands resulted in appearing original samples of carving that could only be found in Siberian towns like Ishym. Regrettably, fire and ages did not spare many unique samples of Siberian wooden architecture. At present a task of preserving an original architectural heritage is put among top priorities.