Issue 2, 2016 Study of folklore Zh. M. YushaThe Tuvinians of China and Mongolia: current state of the folklore tradition Study of literature Yu. V. ShatinNekhludov’s journey to Siberia: the problem of initiation A. V. Khrabrova«Suddenly – is a discovery»: the category of accident in the creative system of late Lermontov and early Dostoevsky V. V. Maroshi«Bilious men» and diatribe: the genealogy of the character and genre in Russian Literature S. V. SviridovSatirical verses as a literary genre L. N. SinyakovaPlot architectonics in A. P. Chekhov’s short story «Po delam sluzhby» G. S. Zueva, G. E. GorlanovThe mirror two-faced image of the protagonist of the novel by D. S. Merezhkovsky «Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci» O. A. MamontovaThe metaplot of resettlement to Siberia in N. D. Teleshov’s works E. N. ProskurinaArtistic philosophy of death in short stories by G. Gazdanov D. V. MaryinProblems of textuality of nonfiction works by V. M. Shukshin K. V. IzmestyevaTransformation of the plot of Cinderella in the play by Leonid Filatov «Cinderella: before and after» I. V. AsheulovaThe plot of «The second coming of Christ» in the novels of V. Sharov N. E. Nikonova, Yu. S. SeryaginaTh. Herzl and M. Nordau in Siberian periodicals at the turn of XIX–XX centuries: criticism, translations and theater reviews Linguistics N. D. Golev, N. B. LebedevaThe modern online dictionary of dialect vocabulary E. V. SolominaOn stylistic differentiation of the urban vernacular speech S. V. GrichinThe category of definiteness/indefiniteness in authorization aspect S. V. KogutDiscourse markers in written scientific discourse A. A. RachevaThe use of the markers vot and von as a discursive choice of the speaker Z. V. ChernykhCompositional elements of conflict episodes in student communication E. A. Kolodinа, I. V. PashkovaThe specificity of the image-sense in translating film titles (based on the English and Korean languages) I. Ya. SelyutinaThe features of the Consonant systems of South Siberian Turkic languages on the parameters of the objective complexity L. V. OzolinyaComparability of verb forms in the Russian and Orok languages (the participle, the adverbial participle, the specific verb forms) N. N. FedinaThe changes in the sub-system of the present time forms in the Chalkan language from the middle of the XX century to the present L. A. ShaminaMorphosyntactic characteristics of modus-dictum bipredicative constructions of Tuvan (on the example of folklore and modern texts) T. B. TagarovaOn the study of the phraseological units of the Buryat language as elements of lingvoсulture Review S. R. SmirnovFollowing Valentin Rasputin. Valentin Rasputin’s Work: Answers and Questions: Monogr. / T. E. Avtukhovich et al.; Ed. by I. I. Plekhanova. Irkutsk: Irkutsk Univ. Press, 2014. 395 p. The Creative Personality of Valentin Rasputin: Painting – Feeling – Scientific life L. A. KhodanenThe Lermontov readings – 2014 in Saint Petersburg. «Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in the cultural context of two centuries» (S.-Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2015. 360 p., col. ill.) I. A. Poplavskaya, Y. I. Rodchenko, N. A. RudikovaInternational scientific seminar «Russian-Siberian Francophonie» (Tomsk, 11–15 June, 2015)