Review article

The article considers the issues associated with the architecture of cultural, leisure and entertainment buildings located in the Zarechnaya part of Nizhny Novgorod directly on the territory of the former Nizhny Novgorod Fair and next to it. Despite the availability of historical studies of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the perspectives of its subsequent influence on new architectural objects have not been regarded by architectural science. For the first time, there has been analyzed the manifestation of the fair culture traditions in the formation of volumetric-spatial, functional-planning, compositional-artistic and structural-technological features of a number of structures. The purpose of the study is to identify specific features common to the architectural typology of architectural objects referring to different time periods, namely, a circus, a planetarium, an exhibition pavilion, and warehouses located in the Strelka district. As a result of the study, there has been identified a new vector in the study of the formation of public buildings` architecture.