Review article

Thearticleisdevotedtotherailwayarchitectureoftheeastern directions of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The author considers fan-type steam locomotive depots built on the Ussuri railway and in the cities of North-East China. On the basis of previously unpublished archival drawings of stations and buildings, explanatory notes to the projects and surviving photographs of the first years of operation of these roads, the architectural features of steam locomotive depots, their size, capacity are analyzed; types of facade design are determined; the current state andthemainoptionsfortheuseofdepotbuildingsare described.