Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 735-749 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.444; 72.01 Architectural Space as a Factor of Regional Cultural Identity Anastasia V. Kistova* and Anastasia N. Tamarovskaya Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 20.09.2014, received in revised form 09.11.2014, accepted 20.12.2014 The provisions stated in the paper are based on fi ndings of modern cultural and art studies related to the ability of architectural spaces to form a concept of oneself, of a society, of the world for a human being, who is interacting with these spaces. <...> Only true architectural masterpieces of the state-of-art type are able to produce a positive impact on the cultural identity of a person when forming the architectural artistic image. <...> The article also contains the results of research of Krasnoyarsk Church of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae as an example of church architecture of regional importance, able to form a positive cultural identity, and the results of practical research of the peculiarities of perception of the architecture by children in primary and secondary school. <...> The research was conducted by Anastasia Tamarovskaya, a fourth-year student majoring in “history of arts” at the Institute for Humanities of Siberian Federal University. <...> Keywords: Regional cultural identity, architectural space, piece of architecture, architectural artistic image, perception of architecture by children, Krasnoyarsk architecture, Church of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae (Colossae). <...> Introduction The relevance of the impact of architectural spaces and forms on a person’s cultural identity is increasingly mentioned in the articles of modern architecture researchers (K. Higa, 2013; K.M. Kuenzli, 2012; P. Schumacher, 2009; C. Whiting, 2011; S.T. Agisheva, F.D. Mubarakshina, 2013; S.Yu. <...> Okhrimenko, 2009; D.A. Leontiev, 2009 et all), who seem to be working in different areas, but come to general conclusions about the signifi cance of the impact of architectural forms and spaces for the formation of the picture of the world for a man, as well as the opposite impact of human outlook on the emergence and development of architectural works and architectural environment. <...> Architecture, considered at intersection the of cultural studies, aesthetics, Anastasia V. Kistova and Anastasia N. Tamarovskaya. <...> Such a representation of the architecture in its symbiotic relationship with the man is explained by researchers as “re-estimation of values in the structure of modern society, where <...>