V rabote rassmatrivayutsya istoricheskie periody formirovaniya arkhitekturno-planirovochnoy i ob"emno-prostranstvennoy sredy istoricheskikh poseleniy, raspolozhennykh v severnoy chasti Kuzbassa, etapy razvitiya planirovochnoy struktury naselennykh punktov, imeyushchikh istoriko-kul'turnoe naslenie. Avtor osveshchaet arkhitekturno-kompozitsionnye i stilisticheskie osobennosti zastroyki.Rassmatritrivaetsya tipologiya zdaniy i sooruzheniy, otnosyashchikhsya k periodu funktsionirovaniya Sibirskogo trakta i prokladki Transsibirskoy zheleznodorozhnoy magistrali (kul'tovye zdaniya, obshchestvennye zdaniya, zhilaya i promyshlennaya zastroyka, sooruzheniya i ob"ekty zheleznoy dorogi). V rabote privedeny kharakternye cherty i osobennosti razvitiya derevyannogo i kamennogo zodchestva. V rabote provedeno issledovanie i analiz sovremennogo sostoyaniya rassmatrivaemykh istoricheskikh poseleniy.