Having begun as a hired kitchen-gardener, Sergei Ivanovich Pogankin managed to rise and become an owner of more than 50 shops and tradeplaces at the Market, warehouses on Vershannaja cornfield, a tanning yard with a tannery in Zavelichye. He also had yard places and allotments, bought or taken for debts and he had great stone chambers built, which contributed to the beauty of the town. Great public structures besides the Market within the Outer Town were "Gostiny Dvory" (Inns) combined with many stores and warehouses, the Mint, the Customs Department and the Mug's Yard. In the 16 th to 17 th centuries the face of the town - gradually altered. The residential houses were built in a new architectural style developed in Pskov. Modern archeological excavations carried out in the Middle Town found the yards of the Pskovites dating to the 14 th and 15 th centuries. They were small in size. Their area occupied 100-300 square meters. The remnants of the typical yard plan are represented by a palisade, a frame work of the house with a stove, two to three frame works of service buildings and shed pillars. Big yards were not peculiar for Pskov. The reason was that small allotments were possessed by the Pskovites, including the boyars, and the tradition of keeping vitally important stores in the warehouses inside the Krom.
