Keyword: «chronotope of meetings»

The article is devoted to the work of Leonid Shinkarev «The Old Rynda», the content of which is a description of the travel of the editorial team of the newspaper «Izvestia», which aimed at a journalistic depiction of nature, the customs of the people living in a separately designated region – the vicinity of the great Siberian river Lena. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the book «The Old Rynda» by Leonid Shinkarev has not previously been the object of attention in literary criticism. As the analysis shows, the travel notes of Leonid Shinkarev, a professional journalist and philologist, have their own characteristics and differences from traditional travel essays, the analysis of which is given in the article.