House Choobineh – the oldest wooden structure in the city of Irkutsk. The building was built in the XVIII century and today is a monument of architecture of Federal value. The house was named, presumably, in honour of its owner - a local tradesman Shubin.

House Choobineh is a wooden building, in the style of traditional Irkutsk plan. Single storey old mansion with prirub to the side façade was built of pine "in oblo", that is, with the release of the ends of the logs. A little later his sheathed with boards and decorated with carvings. The basis of the house is a five-centesimal frame 7, 2 m × 7, 9 m. On the side facade is a porch, stairs and porch. There is also a mezzanine floor prirub, where he had a spacious outdoor balcony. Mezzanine floor is one of the characteristic architectural tricks of the XVIII century - at that time in the city of Irkutsk was imposed an official ban on the construction of two-storey houses. The internal layout of the house is typical of Irkutsk. On the ground floor you can see preserved Russian oven.

House Choobineh had a traditional for Siberia so-called bow-gate and high fence.

The uniqueness of the house Choobineh is that it is the only surviving to the present day wooden building of the XVIII century and All other similar buildings burned in multiple fires. Almost all of the old wooden Irkutsk is buildings built after 1879

The owners of the building in the twentieth century has brought a unique house to the degraded state. The old HOMESTEAD for several years was boarded up. In August 2012, the mansion on the decision of the court seized from the owners, and in December 2012 it was sold at auction to a private company, committed to restore the house and to maintain it in proper form.