Issue 2, 2019 Study of folklore Vera S. KuznetsovaThe Tower of Babel and the confusion of languages: Biblical story in the Russian Siberian text Evgenia N. KuzminaReflection of archetypical models in “loci communes” of heroic epics of the peoples of Siberia Tatyana V. Dayneko, Natalia V. LeonovaGenres of Belarusian calendar songs of Siberia and the Far East Study of literature Yury V. ShatinExegi monumentum: from ode to confession. The change of plot code Alexey E. KozlovSemiotics of chess in the literature of the 19th century: to the interpretation of Nikolay Aksharumov “The Player” Elena L. Suzryukova“Lamentation of Joseph” in the plot and the semantic structure of short stories “The Grief” by Anton Chekhov and “The Anxiety” by Vassily Nikiforov-Volgin Maria М. GelfondOn a possible source of the Mandelstam’s epitaph to Andrei Bely Maria V. Nisova“Slums” of St. Petersburg and Tomsk: from imitation to artistic reception Dechka ChavdarovaHomo legens in the novel “Under the Yoke” by Ivan Vazov: a Bulgarian student who arrived from Russia, identified with Bazarov, Raskolnikov, and Werter Elena N. ProskurinaA. Platonov and V. Zazubrin: intersecting parallels Galina A. ZhilichevaChaplin in Yuri Olesha’s narrative Natalia V. Shestakova, Irina I. PlekhanovaViktor Zilov: a crying daemon or a laughing trickster? (Оn typological identification of the character) Dmitry I. Ivanov, Dmitry L. Lakerbai“Not a penny to my name, however much I do”: the faith plot and his ‘routine’ devastation in J. Brodsky’s poetry Linguistics Olga I. Valentinova, Michail A. Rybakov, Alexandr N. ShirobokovModel types and their explanatory possibilities: the case of modeling the vocal systems of some Turkic languages of Siberia Tatyana R. RyzhikovaArticulatory-acoustic characteristics of the Baraba-Tatar phoneme a /ᴧ̇˘/ in a comparative aspect Ekaterina V. SunduevaAcoustic and mimic characteristics of laughter in the Buryat language Yulia M. KuvshinskayaPredicate agreement with the words “r’ad,” “polovina,” “chast’,” “mnozhestvo” in contemporary Russian Ludmila A. IlyinaPoly-predicative evidential utterances involving double marking of sensory perception source of information in North Asian languages Evdokia N. AfanasyevaThe concept of human being in the Yakut language Аnna V. Kuryanovich, Irina E. OholinaConcept of “flash mob” in the modern Russian cultural linguistics: on the formation and specificity of language implementation Olga V. SokolovaFeatures of the avant-garde occasionalism translation (a case study of “Futurist Cookbook” by F. T. Marinetti) Evgeny V. EvpakThe Russian language in written speech of Russian emigrants in Slavic countries (based on private correspondence) Review Ekaterina V. ShvagrukovaExistential experience of scaffold in the novel “The Idiot” by F. M. Dostoevsky Novikova E. G. “Nous serons avec le Christ.” Roman F. M. Dostoevskogo “Idiot.” Monogr. Tomsk, TSU Publ. 2016, 244 p. Svetkana A. Dubrovskaya“Studying is comparing”: an anniversary as a reason for discussing the problems of contemporary literary studies and literary criticism