Buryat People's Spiritual and Moral Values in an Ethnic Novel

Based on materials of Buryat novelistic prose of the second half of the 20th century, the author analyses some peculiarities in representation of axiological dominating ideas of indigenous people of Baikal region by literature means. The paper considers valuable and normative components of Buryat people’s cultural worldview reflected in national bellectristics written at the Soviet period; the author specifies linguistic-mental face of the ethnos. Particularity in ethnic-driven understanding of some common axiological senses reflected in Buryat writers’ texts of fiction in socialistic realism genre is revealed. Basic linguistic-cultural concepts revealing Buryats’ views on social ideal and cultural norms are briefly described.