Abstract: In this article, the subject of the study is the poetics of the poems of the people's writer of Yakutia Andrey Vasilyevich Krivoshapkin. A.Krivoshapkin is a major writer not only of Even literature, but also of national literatures of the peoples of the North. His talent is multifaceted: he is a poet, novelist, publicist. The highest achievements of the writer are his ethnographic poems – "The World of Even", "The Sacred Deer". The authors of the article consider in detail such aspects of the topic as the reflection of the sacred images of the Even people, the national vision of the world in the poetic world of A.Krivoshapkin. Special attention is paid to the writer's poetic description of the feat of his native people, who first mastered the Far North and for many centuries fought for survival in its harsh conditions.   After the research, the authors of the article came to the following conclusion: in his poems "The Sacred Deer", "The World of Even" Andrey Vasilyevich Krivoshapkin most deeply revealed the strength of the soul, the steadfastness of the northern man before the harsh nature, his wisdom. Depicting the special world of Even and its national character, he creates a full-blooded image of the entire way of life of his native people.
The novelty of the work lies in the fact that the authors were able to reveal the special poetic world of Andrei Krivoshapkin, where the spiritual and moral values of all the northern peoples are presented through realistic descriptions of the everyday life of the Evens. The poet becomes an expression of their aspirations and hopes for the future.

Abstract: This article makes an attempt of philological analysis of Platon Oyunsky’s poem “Farewell”. Systemic analysis of the poem at the sound, stylistic and ideological-imagery levels allows describing the attributes of P. Oyunsky’s innovativeness in using the syllabic verse of versification in the Yakut poetry, as well as determining the use of most frequency verbs and verb forms that endow the oeuvre meditativity and philosophicity. The authors reveal and explore the thematic fields: human and nature, time and space, human and society, death, poet and immortality. In the literary work, any element of the text is significant, as it carries a certain ideological weight, and thus, must be considered in the development of comprehensive philological analysis. A holistic philological analysis of the flagship poem of Platon Oyunsky is presented for the first time within the Yakut literary studies. The conducted philological analysis of the poem “Byrastɨ” (“Farewell”) once again proves the innovativeness and poetic mastery of P. Oyunsky. He was first in the Yakut poetry who used the syllabic verse and enriched its strophe. The poet in his work favors the nouns with the affix of belonging, mostly personal pronoun, which allows expressing his innermost feelings. Figurative and onomatopoetic words prevail among the verb forms, due to which the poem become not only lyrical, but also solemn and dramatic.

Abstract: The authors of the article analyze the contribution of a Yakut writer Sofron Danilov to the development of prose in general and Yakut literary writing in particular. Sofron Danilov created a unique lyrico-dramatic style. As a writer and master of psychological analysis, he created original images of his contemporaries. Sofron Danilov had a true gift for literary criticism. Insightfully and on a scientific ground Sofron Danilov investigated works of classical Yakut authors and described peculiarity of their creative writing. Sofron Danilov paid much attention to journalism and tried to describe the most nettlesome issues of those times to his contemporaries through his writing, this is why was perceived both as a writer and philosopher. The methodological basis of this research includes fundamental works of M. Bakhtin, M. Lomunova, A.Myreeva, D. Vasilieva, and G. Philippova. To achieve the research targets, the authors of this article has applied methods of empirical and theoretical research (comparative historical and theoretical analysis). The main conclusions of the research are the following:  Sofron Danilov was the first one to introduce the terms 'polyphony' and 'monologue' into the Yakut prose narration. He was the author of the first Yakut socio-psychological novel 'The Heartbeat' in which he depicted the life of the society at the turn of the 1950s - 60s (the so-called thaw period). He was a famous author of novels and short stories. Sofron Danilov was the founder of a new style, new prose and thus had a great impact on the development of the Yakut literature, many writers called him teache. Sofron Danilov's creative works were highly appraised by critics and theorists of literature and he was a famous author in his country.