The concept of space in the structure of the linguistic picture of the world

The article deals with the issues of conceptualization of space in the linguistic picture of the world. The fundamental properties of the existence of an ethnos determine the specifics of the mentality of an ethnic collective, determine the uniqueness of the spatial plans of its life. For linguistic interpretation, the study of universal and ethnic constructions of the phenomenon of the category of space and their corresponding concepts, representations, knowledge expressed by linguistic means is relevant.