The object of research is the traditional housing of Podillia - one of the historical and ethnographic zones of Ukraine. Podillia occupies the land of the annalistic "Lower" - the interfluve of the Southern Bug and the Dniester. According to the modern administrative-territorial division, it covers Vinnitsa, the north of Odessa, Khmelnitsky (the so-called Eastern Podillia) and Ternopil (the so-called Western Podillia) regions.