Review article

The article presents the results of the study carried out as part of the scientific project «The creative heritage of the graduates of the St. Petersburg Architectural and Engineering Schools in the Far East (second half of the XIX - early XX centuries)». The creative and professional activities of the graduates of the Academy of Arts, the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy and the Institute of Railway Engineers who worked in the Russian Far East in the pre-revolutionary period are discussed. The importance of the preserved objects of their creative heritage in the formation of the historical development of the largest cities in the region, such as Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Ussuriysk, is emphasized.