The article is devoted to the creative album of the 30-40s of the twentieth century from the personal archive of P.P. Ivanov, one of the first professional architects of Kyrgyzstan and one of the founders of architectural education in the republic. The main content of the album consists of samples of Kyrgyz felt ornamented carpets-shirdaks and architectural decor of the Dungan folk dwelling, as well as their creative interpretations of cultural heritage in the architecture of this period, which makes it a valuable source on the history of architecture and decorative and applied arts of Kyrgyzstan.

The article examines the concepts of the historical city in the aspect of their relationship  with  the  hypothetical  future  cultural  landscape  in  the  works of N.V. Gogol, V.F. Odoevsky, V.G. Belinsky, A.S. Khomyakov, V.A. Sollogub, N.I. Nadezhdin, M.S. Volkov, etc. The author considers the period of 1830-50 in Russia as the time of the emergence of new ideas about the historical phenomenon of the city and methods of its study and tries to trace the evolution of ideas about the nature of the relationship between the historical city and the new architectural environment in this period: from the declaration of the free use of architectural forms of the past, regardless of geographical and historical context, to attempts of a dialogue based on the appeal to the national and regional heritage of the past and awareness of the importance of the historical city as a unique and irreplaceable type of cultural heritage, inextricably linked with the cultural and natural landscape.

The article is devoted to the problems of studying the urban heritage of Russia by students of the Moscow Architectural Institute in the process of performing practical tasks in the course of the History of Urban Planning. The methodological and methodical foundations of teaching this professional discipline, which is of one of the most important in the historical cycle, have been laid by A.V. Bunin and A T.F. Savarenskaya, the authors of the History of Urban Art, and are currently continued by her students, including the Rector of the Institute D.O. Shvidkovsky. The course is based on the idea of the city not only as a spatial and socio-economic, but also as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. The methodology of teaching this discipline proposed by the founders of the History of Urban Planning assumes, along with the study of theory and history, the implementation of practical assignments in the form of graphic works of an analytical nature. The article discusses examples of works from the fund of the Department of History of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Moscow Architectural Institute.