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: 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 Being both a historical document and work of literature, the diary genre takes a special place in documentary and fiction.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.