Wherever a person is born, he needs a home, a home... The very first people in distant, distant times hid in caves and built huts, then they learned to combine branches, skins and other natural materials. Further - more, each nation has developed its own type of housing: an izba - a log house in the forest zone of Russia; hut - a traditional house of Ukrainians and Belarusians; saklya - the home of the inhabitants of the mountainous areas of the Caucasus and Crimea; igloo - an Eskimo hut made of blocks of dense snow; yaranga - a portable dwelling of the peoples of northeast Siberia; yurt - a frame dwelling with a felt covering among Turkic and Mongolian nomads... From the book you will learn that in Amsterdam there is a whole block of floating houses - Waterbuurt, that a forest house-storage house on stilts is called a storage shed and that the first Soviet underwater installation for living under water was created divers from Donetsk and it is called “Ichthyander”. And you will also read that the most magnificent buildings were erected for kings and... gods in the hope that they would descend to Earth and be the patrons of man...