Keyword: ««coast of destiny»»

The problem of concepts in the literatures of the peoples of the North is practically not studied. In the proposed work, the concepts of the Even image of the world are revealed for the first time on the material of the work of the Even prose writer Andrei Krivoshapkin, in particular his novel «The Coast of Fate». Ethnographic realities, which form the basis of the national image of the world, were not previously the object of cultural-historical and semantic analysis in the writer's novel work. The textual analysis of the novel made it possible to identify the concepts of the Even culture, to trace their semantic content in the literary text through an appeal to the ethnography and folklore of the Evens.