The Great Patriotic War in the artistic interpretation of Ye. D. Aypin

Introduction: the article is a detailed description of the artistic forms of interpretation of the theme of the Great Patriotic War in the works of the largest Khanty prose writer Ye. D. Aypin. Objective: to determine the dynamics of the author’s ideas about the Great Patriotic War in the fiction of Ye. D. Aypin as a significant factor in the ideological and axiological program. Research materials: the complete corpus of literary texts by Ye. D. Aypin, which presents various scenarios of the author’s realization of the theme of the Great Patriotic War. Results and novelty of the research: the study revealed that the theme of the Great Patriotic War in the fiction of Ye. D. Aypin has a leitmotif character and runs through the entire work of the writer. The victory in this war is perceived by the author as a key, fateful event in the history of Russia, testifying to the vitality of its people and influencing the entire subsequent path of the state. In the process of artistic realization of this theme in the work of the Yugra writer, a special character type of the hero-veteran is formed, which, according to the author, is a moral guideline for all subsequent generations. The scientific novelty of the research is due to the fact that this is the first time that such an experience of a substantive comprehensive analysis of the theme of the Great Patriotic War in the work of Ye. D. Aypin has been undertaken in scientific practice