Room-temperature electrodeposition templated by solid highly ordered and less ordered insulating materials will be discussed as a tool to fabricate various fragments of micro- and nanostructures, as well as their arrays of certain periodical geometry. Limitations of this ‗wet‘ technology are related to possible degradation of supports in deposition solutions, as well as to possibility of electric contacts arrangement. However these complications can be usually overcompensated by high controllability and possibility of on line deposition monitoring. The latter assumes both the quantity of deposited material (typically metal) and some structural features of the deposit. The examples of original results will be presented: (1) metal deposition into nm-diameter pores of the ordered alumina films (to form ensembles of nanowires), (2) into ion-etched polymer membranes (to form easily extracted nanowires), and (3) into polymeric templates consisting of sub-mkm size spheres (to form metallic inverted opals). The prospects of electrodeposition of nonmetallic conductive nanostructures will be briefly reviewed. Finally, the compatibility of electrodeposition with various ‗dry‘ fabrication techniques will be considered.