Abstract: This article is devoted to Mongolian folklore, first of all, heroic epic and fairy-tales. The authors give comparative typological analysis of variants of The Epic of King Gesar, Epic of Jangar, and several fairy-tales from Mongolian and Buryat folklore. Lately there have been a lot of in-depth researches of folklore and influence of folklore on the development of literature and culture. This is what causes the rationale of the research. The aim of the research is to define artistic-stylistic peculiarities of images of children, i.e. expressive means that are used to depict heroes in epics and fairy-tales. The object of the research is Mongolian folklore. The subject of the reseasrch is the images of children in heroic epics about Gesar and Jangar as well as Buryat and Mongolian fairy-tales. The research methods included description, comparison, structural-typological methods that allowed to analyze the genre of heroic epic and fairy-tale as integral works and to compare Mongolian and Buryat variants of epics and describe their differences and similarities. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first time in Mongolian studies the author makes an attempt to reveal images of children in epics and fairy-tales from the lexical-grammatical and semantical points of view. The authors describe lexical-semantic peculiarities of epics and fairy-tales and expressive means used therein. They conclude that images of children are marked with conventional epithets that describe their talents. 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the military diary genre in Buryat literature of the Great Patriotic War period. Being both a historical document and work of literature, the diary genre takes a special place in documentary and fiction. The aim of the research is to define particular features of the military diary genre, their documental and autobiographical grounds. The subject of the research is the perception of the war by the authors of military diaries. The object of the research is the Buryat military prose. The rationale of the research is caused by the fact that military diary is quite an understudied genre of Buryat literature. The research material involves military diaries of veteran writers Zh. Tumunov and Ts. Nomtoev. Extracts in the Buryat language are accompanied with their translation into Russian. Teh research was carried out using such methods as the biographical analysis, problem typological, comparative analysis. The research expands our views on the diary prose, in particular, military diary genre. The author of the article concludes that the nature and contents of military diaries in Buryat literature were predetermined by the need to preserve the eyewitness observations and memory of the events.