Housing problem in cities of Siberia in the first half of the XXth century.
The authors examine the ways and tendencies of solving housing problem in cities of Siberian, the conditions of intensive industrial development of the region. They reveal the origins of housing crisis in the first decades of the last century and demonstrate its connections with the initial stage of industrialization in Siberia and general crisis of economics after military and revolutionary shocks. In the article, the State policy in solving housing problem, reasons of formation of so-called «residual principle» of allotment for construction of habitation are analysed. Moreover, different forms of social initiative connected with solving housing problem are examined.