Abstract: The subject of the research is the locations of mythological space in the tales of P. P. Bazhov and the linguistic means of their explication in the text. The object of the study is the category of mythological space in the tales of P. P. Bazhov. The author examines the concepts of mythological space and location in contemporary humanities at a theoretical level. The article systematizes the main mythological locations in the tales of P. P. Bazhov, related to mythological characters such as the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Babka Sinyushka, Devka-Azovka, and others. Special attention is paid to the linguistic means of explication in the tales of P. P. Bazhov. Based on the identified means, the main features of the mythological space in Bazhov's tales are noted – vast sizes, precious stones as the main material, cold or, conversely, warmth. The foundation of the research methodology is the method of categorial-textual analysis from the Ural school of linguoculturology (T. V. Matveeva, T. V. Itskovich, and others), which was used to uncover the main linguistic means of explication of mythological space locations in Bazhov's tales. The novelty of the research lies in the identification and systematization of the mythological space locations reflected in the tales of P. P. Bazhov, as well as in the systematization of the main linguistic means of explication of these locations. The mythological space of P. P. Bazhov's tales has rarely been the subject of linguistic studies before, thus the article aims to reveal a new aspect of Bazhov's creativity. The mythological space or fantastic world of P. P. Bazhov's tales is indirectly addressed in contemporary studies in literary criticism and linguistics, reflected in the works of L. I. Stepanova, A. I. Shchukina, E. V. Kharitonova. The mythological space in the tales of P. P. Bazhov is usually studied in the context of the mythological characters of the tales, through Ural mythology, which is characteristic of the works of E. L. Berezovich, E. E. Ivanova, and other researchers.

Keywords: Mistress of the Copper Mountain, mythological characters, mythological space, space, Malachite box, Ural, tale, folklore, Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, Ural mythology

Abstract: The subject of this study is the mechanisms of cultural influence exerted by Hollywood films, particularly the animated film Madagascar, on the perception of the specificity and national identity of the Republic of Madagascar. The object of the study is the international image of Madagascar, formed under the influence of mass culture, especially Hollywood films. These films, widely distributed worldwide, often transmit simplified and stereotypical representations, significantly affecting public opinion and international perception. The aim of this research is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the role of Hollywood films in shaping Madagascar’s international image. The study examines both positive aspects, such as increasing global awareness of the country, and negative consequences, including reinforcing cultural stereotypes. Special attention is paid to how mass culture, embodied in the animated film Madagascar, shapes perceptions of the country abroad. The methodology includes content analysis of media materials (such as film reviews), sociological surveys conducted among a representative and culturally diverse international sample, and organization of focus groups to deeply study perceptions. The surveys aimed to identify key stereotypes, while focus groups provided detailed insights. The main findings show that the film substantially increased Madagascar’s recognition but also contributed to reinforcing stereotypical, oversimplified images that distort the country’s complex cultural characteristics. The author’s contribution lies in identifying mechanisms of mass culture influence on international perceptions, establishing connections between media products and national image, and developing approaches for more accurate representation. The novelty of the study is in the interdisciplinary approach to analyzing mass culture and country perception amid globalizations. The research highlights the need for cooperation between filmmakers and government bodies to create accurate images that minimize the negative impact of stereotypes. Practical significance includes developing cultural policy and national branding strategies aimed at forming a balanced image of the country internationally.

Keywords: stereotypes, international perception, film influence, animated film, Madagascar, cultural perception, Africa, American cinema, Hollywood films, branding

Abstract: When studying the modern era, the topic of constructing social reality is increasingly raised. In this regard, it seems necessary to address a significant period in the development of Russia, when, after the collapse of the old order, a monumental task arose to create a new state and form a new mental space. The use of art not only as an aesthetic practice but also as a structure serving the ideological construction of social reality became a defining element of the cultural strategy of the Soviet state. Mythologemes – transformative universal mythological themes and images – played no small role in this, becoming the basis for the formation of a new collective consciousness. The article shows how the new Soviet space was illuminated, coded, and formed as an ideological product, as well as how creators of various forms of art used cultural space to express what Catherine Clark calls the "cartography of power" – the ideological landscape. In writing this article, the authors relied on the principle of historicism, which, combined with an anthropocentric approach and cultural analysis, allowed them to reveal the peculiarities of the functioning of mythologemes in the Soviet socio-cultural space of the 1920s and 1930s. A table was compiled to systematize the information. The main task of this research is to study the features of the use of mythologemes in various forms of art. In transitional epochs, the relationships between the old and the new, which is in the process of formation, are most tense and develop in a dialectical dialogue. The embodiment of ideas and words, the complex relationships between social ideas, their transformation into representations of the future world and the future person, not only in post-revolutionary art and literature but also in a broader historical and cultural context, is an extremely important topic for the entire revolutionary culture. The authors conclude that during times of revolutionary transformations, when social structures are being destroyed, traditions are rejected, and previous ethical norms and values are overturned, mythical rationality assists power in legitimizing the new political regime and, by interpreting reality, contributes to the unification of people.

Keywords: soviet woman, soviet man, Stalin, mental space, mythologems, Lenin, art, ideology, socialist realism, happy soviet childhood

Abstract: The article explores the mythopoetics of the novels by Andrei Alekseevich Astvatsaturov ("Skunksamera," "Autumn in Pockets") as a vivid manifestation of the transformation of mythological structures in contemporary artistic practices. The aim of this work is to identify the characteristics of the rethinking and integration of ancient mythologems into the modern Russian novel, examining how the ancient myths of Sisyphus and Odysseus, stripped of traditional heroic pathos, acquire new philosophical and existential meanings through the author's ironic and humorous distancing. The subject of analysis in this study is the hero of A. A. Astvatsaturov's novels, who exists on the border between reality and myth, where the latter serves not only as a symbolic mastery of the world but also as a catalyst for philosophical reflections on the present. One of the important tasks of the research is to ascertain how humor, irony, and literary play shape a new mythopoetics. The methodological framework of the study is a synthesis of the mythopoetic approach, descriptive analysis, and text generalization methods. The comprehensive application of these methods allows for not only the study of mythological images and motifs but also a deep dive into the underlying layers of the text, revealing the hidden meanings of Astvatsaturov's works. The scientific novelty of this work consists in the comprehensive examination of the interaction between mythological archetypes and postmodern and metamodern aesthetics through the lens of literary irony, which allows for the identification of new meanings and functions of myth in contemporary Russian prose. The results of the analysis demonstrate that in Astvatsaturov's texts, myth becomes not only an instrument of artistic play but also a catalyst for philosophical reflection regarding everyday life, identity crisis, and the search for meaning in a changing cultural paradigm. The conclusions drawn expand the understanding of mythopoetic processes in contemporary literature and can be applied in further analysis of artistic texts where the mythological principle combines with elements of irony, intertextuality, and metamodern sensitivity. Thus, the article emphasizes the significance of studying mythopoetics as a multidisciplinary tool for understanding new cultural and anthropological trends, confirming that the artistic mastery of myth in the works of A. A. Astvatsaturov opens up opportunities for multilayered interpretation of literary text within the context of contemporary Russian and global literature.

Keywords: Sisyphe, Ulysse, mythe, novel, irony, postmodernisme, A. Astvatsaturov, Mythopoetics, Skunskamera, Autumn in your pockets

Abstract: The article is devoted to the mythopoetics of images in the Yakut heroic epic olonkho "Nyurgun Bootur the Impetuous" – an archaic version of the storyteller K. G. Orosin and the author's version of olonkho "Nyurgun Bootur the Impetuous" by the Yakut writer, poet P. A. Oyunsky. Comparative analysis of archaic and author's olonkho texts does not involve consideration of the volumes of olonkho, which differ greatly in the style of presentation and detail in them; there is no goal to determine the algorithm of comparative characteristics, since the texts have different chronological, historical conditions of creation.The purpose of the study is to determine the role and significance of the mythopoetics of images in the olonkho "Nyurgun Bootur the Swift" by K. G. Orosin and P. A. Oyunsky. Special attention is paid to the interpretation of traditional images in Olonkho. The scientific novelty of the presented research consists in an attempt to analyze and compare the images in the olonkho "Nyurgun Bootur the Impetuous" by K. G. Orosin and P. A. Oyunsky with the definition of their significance in the conceptual picture of the world reflecting the ethical and aesthetic representations of the people, their ethno-cultural consciousness. It is known that in the epic science of the same name olonkho K. Orosin and P. Oyunsky are assigned to the group of the central local tradition of Yakutia. At the same time, the conducted research has shown that olonkho has a complex historical origin, as evidenced by the revealed differences in the creation of mythological images-characters.

Keywords: history, writer, Yakut literature, the picture of the world, myths, characters, mythological image, research, poetics, olonkho

Abstract: The subject of this research article is the analysis of Polish national auto- and heterostereotypes. Stereotypes are an essential element of the cultural code used by a group at a certain time and represent a mental picture of the world. Self-identification inevitably makes one oppose himself or herself to 'aliens', i.e. representatives of other language groups, nationalities and races. This is the reason why phraseological units often verbalize stereotypes about other nations. As stable beliefs, stereotypes are based on cultural specific features, traditions, religion, social and economic life of a certain ethnic group. In this research Spalek compares stable beliefs conveyed by phraseological units and obtained in the course of surveys of auto- and heterostereotypes in a modern Polish society. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author describes similarities and differences of national stereotypes conveyed by Polish phraseological units containing horonyms and ethnonyms and discovered as a result of recent Polish researches. As a result of this research, the author discovers that stable beliefs conveyed by phraseological units often do not conform to modern stereotypes. The latter may change over the time, lose their importance and be replaced with new ones. 

Keywords: linguistic view of the world, stereotype, heterostereotype, autostereotype, horonym, ethnonym, phraseology, paroemia, Polish, sociological survey

Abstract: The object of this research is Vladimir Solovyev's philosophy of religion described in general terms of his philosophy. In his research Klimkov pays special attention to the concept of religious mind developed by Solovyov in his writing 'Readings about God-Like Humanity' as well as a number of other works. Klimkov analyzes the basic prerequisite for Solovyov's philosophy of religion, in particular, the idea that religious belief and religious experience need to be completed with religious mind (or religious way of thinking). Noteworthy that this kind of thinking may become part of cultural experience of both believers and atheists. Using phenomenological and historical analysis methods, the author of the article analyzes the main question whether it is possible at all to understand religious phenomena from the point of view of philosophy. The main conclusions of the reserach are the author's statement that relevations of religious experience are a continuous process in our life, the author's theory of 'religious branches' and ideas about coincidence of historical and logical orders in the process of religious insights and that it is necessary to try to avoid rationalism extremes in philosophical interpretation of religion. The author also defines three main elements, nature, God's beginning and human personality, and describes three stages of religious development. 

Keywords: orthodoxy, russian philosophy, sophiology, vseedinstvo, metaphisics, Vladimir Solovjov, philosophy of religion, christianity, christian philosophy, religious culture

Abstract: In his research Krinitskin analyzes mythological motives in Dostoevsky’s novels suggesting their precise definition based on folklore studies and traditions of scientific literary criticism. The specificity of personal myths determined by Dostoevsky’s and the character’s ideas in Dostoevsky’s later novels is described. The researcher describes the myth about sacrifice, the central topic in such novels of as “Crime and Punishment”, “The Idiot”, “The Demons” and “The Brothers Karamazov”. The majority of the above mentioned novels shows this myth in several variants of the plot revealing its contradictory and ambivalent nature: it turns out that both categories of characters, those preaching the ideas of theanthropism and those preaching the ideas of God as the outward projection of a human's inward nature, think about saving the world via sacrifice. The research methods used in this work include historical and cultural, hermeneutical, comparative-historical and comparative and typological analysis of mythopoetics data. The main results of the research is the determination of specifics of myths development in late novels of Fedor Dostoyevsky based on the leading modern concepts of the myth, with the final definition of the myth in Dostoyevsky's five books. The purpose of the research was also to examine the myth about sacrifice in novels "Pentateuch" in the aforesaid figve books. The researcher underlines the ambivalent nature of the philosophical meaning of sacrifice as a mythological theme which, in its turn, determine diversity of poetics and ideological and artistical system of each novel in general.

Keywords: Christianity, punishment, mythological thinking, Aleksey Losev, sacrifice, myth, plot, idea, Dostoevsky’s novels, romanticism

Abstract: The subject of research is the evolution of romanticism in the German literature and philosophy, the main features and characteristics of romanticism were shown in process of romanticism are shown. The special attention is paid to specifics of typically German romanticism as spokesman of the main lines of the German mentality and national spirit. The author in detail considers such aspects of a subject as influence of romanticism in literature and art on political thought of Germany, and also the romanticism in practical policy which influenced development of a course of conservatism. Methodology of research is the appeal to heritage of the German romanticism - the author had opportunity long time to work at various universities and libraries in Germany. The main conclusions of the conducted research is the thought that use of concepts of nationalism and political mythology together with such "metaphysical" concepts as spirit, the soil, race, destiny, history, revival open theoretical essence and practical capacity of the current of the romanticism in Germany which passed evolution from literature to policy.

Keywords: nation, myth, spirit, politics, philosophy, art, literature, romanticism, Germany, state

Abstract: Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev's creative work is a unique phenomenon of the Russian and not only the Russian culture of the XX century. Now its research, as a rule, or is limited to the philological party of a question, or serves as a studying subject as one of forms of religious creativity in the spirit of "New Age". However only the philosophical analysis can provide complete and substantial consideration of "A world rose" as project which includes at the same time both literary, and profestichesky, and socio-political aspects. The philosophy practically has no methodology of research mystical (or pseudo-mystical) experience, however, in article is applied рациональныйи germenevtichesky approach to studying of "A world rose". Daniil Andreyev's creativity is quite capable to act as a subject of the versatile philosophical analysis. The idea of "A world rose" as future interreligiya is capable to appear before the modern researcher as a being self-disproved prophecy, as the detailed description of such way of a koevolyution of the world and the person to whom the way alternative was preferred more than half-century ago. The poetic hobby of the author for unfulfilled social and utopian projects has to be not the cause for discredit of its mystical experience, imperfect the verbalization of this experience undertaken by it, but motivation as for serious philosophical research of transphysical and metahistorical ideas of D. L. Andreyev, and in general for studying of essence of mysticism, conceptualization ways теодицеи and findings of the answer to requirement of implementation of optimum arrangement of society of the XXI century. 

Keywords: Daniil Andreev, Roza Mira (The Rose of the World) , mysticism, social utopism, Russian religious philosophy, eschatology, occultism, sectionalism, prophesies of our time, the Third World War

Abstract: What awaits mysticism in the future? What the fortune of mysticism will be like? These are the questions being actively discussed in modern literature. Discussions touch upon a wide range of problems from transformation of science, changing face of culture and human prospects. Some researchers (there are not so many of them) assume that the fashion for mysticism is ephemeral and it is already starting to decline. Other researchers, on the contrary, seem to be quite sure that the mystical trend will be only growing and expanding. There are also researchers who believe that in the chaos of modern mystical teachings, a new way to perceive the world and a new image of the future are being created. Before answering these questions, the author of the article tries to summarize the main directions of modern mysticism. What psychological needs does it satisfy? What is so charming about it? The author uses the method of phenomenological analysis which allows to define historical grounds and psychological roots of mysticism in the modern world. The novelty of the problem is the discussion of the future of mysticism. The author touches upon the forms of mysticism in the modern world and shows that this phenomenon is still rather strong int he XXI century. Scientific achievements do not automatically eliminate mysticism. Quite on the contrary, they often lead to creation of these or those new teachings. 

Keywords: Mystique, mysticism, culture, literature, spiritual fashion, psyche, insanity, Shambhala, spirituality, faith

Abstract: Great changes happening in the world seem to rationilize all aspects of social life. Modern politicians and technocrats have been trying to develop the society based on the concept of universal reasoning. Ruling elites tend to use the common system of thought. However, the phenomenon of social myth is becoming a significant element of public consciousness. In this day and age not only philosophers and historians but also sociologists and philologists are interested in myth as the phenomenon of spirits and consiousness. In modern literature the term 'myth' has different meanings and interpretations. Moreover, myth is gaining a very important role in modern fiction. A good example is the literature of Latin America. Many writers associate myth with fate and destiny. The main character of a novel often leads his life as some kind of archetype of eternal fate. We deal with the whirl of time and events. At the same time, there is also a tendency towards seeking for a universal myth which would express desires of many people but not just individual hopes. 

Keywords: literature, myth, life, fate, prototype of life, history, society, mythology, fiction, mysticism