The structure of the “Yakutia” concept based on the material of Korolenko’s short stories “Sokolinets” (“The Falconer”), “Moroz” (“Frost”), “At-Davan”, “Ogon’ki” (“Lights”), “Posledniy luch” (“The Last Ray”), “Gosudarevy yamshchiki” (“Sovereign’s coachmen”),“Feodaly” (“Feudal Lords”) is determined using the methods of the key words analyses. The results of the research verify the hypothesis that Yakutia is depicted as the country of cold, winter and night in the writer’s works.
Keywords: a concept, V.G. Korolenko, Yakutia, a mythological country of the dead.
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