Keyword: «a real geographical image»

The article considers the geographical image of ice on the sea as an essential part of the water area of the regional picture of the world of the northern Russian territories. One of the blocks of the regional picture of the world model is presented on the basis of the text analysis of the book by F.P. Litke, where the results of his direct observations made within the expedition of 1821 on the way to Novaya Zemlya were recorded. The features of the situational block reflecting the movement of two objects – sea vessel brig and ice – are revealed; its complex organization, conditions that allow to identify particular situations consisting of individual episodes are also exposed. The criteria are determined that permit to recognize the movement of the described objects as a real geographical image having structural and qualitative characteristic features.