Review article

The article provides a brief overview of the main approaches to working with the urban context the architects were guided by when placing new architectural objects in the historical center of Ryazan in different decades of the 20-th century. Significant Ryazan cases are regarded as part of all-Russian (all-Union) trends, changes in ideological and stylistic paradigms, which can be described as fluctuations between traditionalist and radical modernist approaches. The topic of the evolution of the attitude of architects and government bodies to the issue of preserving architectural heritage is touched upon, and recommendations are given regarding the improvement of urban planning regulations.