This category brings together material on practical technologies applied in the Nizhny Novgorod context: from artistic techniques to engineering solutions for life on water. A special place is occupied by questions of autonomous arrangement of floating homes under conditions of sharp seasonal temperature swings — Heating of a Floating House) and Electricity supply of a floating house describe specific approaches to year-round operation of houses on water. Also presented here is the Batik technique — fabric painting linked to the Nizhny Novgorod artistic milieu.