isbas

The more fortunate of them lived in the outbuildings and were employed about the house, but most of them were down in the village, a filthy, straggling place of log huts, called isbas, with entrances so low you had to stoop to go in.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

They saw no less than three kinds of houses -- first, the "isbas," built of logs, and not unlike the log-cabins of America.

Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

Most of the buildings are four-story barracks-like concrete apartment houses, but here and there one of the centuries-old, elaborately stenciled log isbas still stands.

The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

In the upper left corner was a pair of isbas, the crude huts of Russian peasant life.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

Saint Peter and Saint Paul consists of seven loghouses, or _isbas_, nineteen _balagans_, and three _jourts_.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

The loghouses (_isbas_) are raised with long timbers piled horizontally, the ends being let into one another, and the seams caulked with moss.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784