Abstract: The subject of the study is the natural images captured in the diaries of the classic Buryat literature of the twentieth century D. Ulzytuev. The object of the study is the work of D. Ulzytuev from the period of the 1950s-1970s. The author examines in detail the genre of the diary in the writer's work, revealing its features. The main attention is paid to the identification of natural images that occupy a significant place. In the diaries, numerous sketches about nature are included in the narrative of the daily course of life, which is presented as an objective environment, based on which reality and subjective nature, reflecting the inner world of the artist, are endowed with psychologism, that is, they perform various functions.   The diaries of D. Ulzytuev are two notebooks – the first one related to the period of the poet's studies in Moscow in 1957-1958, the second – 1969-1970. Descriptive, comparative and comparative methods are used in the work. The novelty of the work lies in the fact that D. Ulzytuev's diaries are a unique phenomenon in the poet's creative heritage, and they have not become the object of scientific research until now. Consequently, the disclosure of images of nature in the diary genre contributes to a deeper understanding of the creative individuality of the author.All this allows us to conclude that the natural images in D. Ulzytuev's diaries bear the stamp of individual perception, are a means of expressing his inner world.

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.