The invention discloses a rectangular steel pipe row shear wall structure with vertical cracks. The rectangular steel pipe row shear wall structure with the vertical cracks is mainly formed by means of the method that a plurality of vertically-arranged rectangular steel pipes are tightly arrayed in the horizontally transverse direction. The adjacent rectangular steel pipes are connected through connecting weld joints arranged in a spaced mode, and every two adjacent steel pipes are connected through the connecting weld joints at the junctions of steel pipe wing fates and webs. The vertical cracks are formed among vertical intermissions of the connecting weld joints and the rectangular steel pipes, and the rectangular steel pipes between the parallel vertical cracks form bending small pillars. The bending small pillars are bended and deformed under the effect of lateral load, so that instability of plastic hinges at the ends of the bending small pillars occurs before whole instability of a shear wall, planar outer instability of the bending small pillars and local instability of steel pipe walls under the load effect on the shear wall. The rectangular steel pipe row shear wall structure with the vertical cracks has the characteristics that lateral bearing resistance, planar outer rigidity and lateral rigidity resistance are large, seismic performance and ductility are good, and the energy-consuming hysteretic loop is plump.