| Term | Definition |
| Apse | a semi-circular or polygonal recess usually vaulted, located in altar wall of a church. |
| Baluster | a pillar, narrowing towards the top and usually carved, acting as a supporting and decorative element in various kinds of partitions. |
| Blind arcading | a row of imitation arches decorating a wall. |
| Boyar | in old Russia, an important landowner and member of the ruling elite. |
| Cart- ouche | an ornamentation, sculpted or drawn, resembling a partly unrolled scroll of parchment. |
| Dresser | a small cupboard standing on a bench in the izba. |
| Drum | the cylindrical support of the dome on a church roof. |
| Izba | a wooden dwelling |
| Kokoshnik | a semi-circular decorative architectural element derived from the zakomara and widely used in Russia in the 16th-17th centuries to ornament the end face of the outer walls. |
| Panagia | a small icon, usually decorated with precious stones and worn by Orthodox bishops on the breast, over their outer clothing. |
| Pilaster | a rectangular column built partly in a wall and designed to follow the order of a square column, having a base, a shaft and a capital. |
| Pilaster strip | a narrow vertical strip resembling a rectangular pillar embedded in the wall and used either to strengthen it or as a decorative element articulating the external walls. |
| Posad | the town's trading and artisan quarter attached to the town walls from without. |
| Rubble | undressed quarry stone used, among other things, for wall foundations. |
| Rusticated stone | masonry with a textured surface. |
| Scroll | carved ornamental design resembling a roll of parchment. |
| Shingle | slips of wood, usually aspen, used to cover roofs and church domes. |
| Sloboda | settlement exempted from normal state obligations |
| Tent-shaped roof | in old Russian architecture, a roof in the form of a four-sided or eight-sided pyramid. |
| Voevode | in old Russia, a military leader and also the governor of a town or district, (16th-end of 18th centuries). |
| Zakomara | the semi-circurlar upper section of the outer walls of old Russian churches, covering the adjoining cylindrical inner vault and echoing its outline. |