Abstract

This study analyses the Eastern character of the Russian folklanguage and folklore which connected whith the character of national mentality. The cultural contacts of Russian people with the Turkish and Finno-Ugrian people in the Volga basin were presented by N. S.Troubetzkoy (1927) who formed the new theory-from Russian culture.
Our scientific investigation of the Russian folklanguage and folklore is motivated by the
works, which demonstrated the insufficiency of this domain. The results of our comparative investigation prove the Eastern traits of Russian folklanguage and folklore, namely, we discovered the parallel structures in the Eastern languages and folklore.

Key words: Eastern character of the Russian folkspeech, national mentality, cultural contacts of Russian people, insufficiency of research, the parallel structures of Eastern languages, Russian cultural zone