Rabota posvyashchena tshchatel"nomu sistemnomu analizu dekora traditsionnogo zhilishcha na territorii Bryanskoy oblasti Rossiyskoy Federatsii. Pri izuchenii materiala v ramkakh postavlennoy zadachi rassmatrivalis" osobennosti formirovaniya poseleniy na territorii pogranichnoy Bryanskoy oblasti, s tsel"yu vyyasneniya vozmozhnosti vliyaniya kul"tury ukraintsev i belorusov na formirovanie traditsionnogo dekora Bryanshchiny. Osnovnym istochnikom dlya nastoyashchego issledovaniya stali materialy sobrannye avtorom vo vremya polevykh etnograficheskikh issledovaniy. Rabota soderzhit spravochnye tablitsy i risunki, pozvolyayushchie sostavit" predstavlenie ob elementakh dekora traditsionnogo zhilishcha. Soderzhanie, otsenki i vyvody raboty mogut byt" ispol"zovany v dal"neyshem pri issledovanii Bryanskoy oblasti spetsialistami-istorikami, etnografami, geografami, a takzhe kraevedami, prepodavatelyami srednikh i vysshikh uchebnykh uchrezhdeniy, rabotnikami sfery kul"tury, studentami.