Mythopoetics of Vladivostok in the works of Russian poets of the 20th - 21st centuries

The research deals with the mythopoetics of Vladivostok in the works of Russian poets of the 20th-21st centuries such as K. Balmont, N. Matveeva, M. Aliger, P. Gomzyakov. The study investigates the leitmotivs that allow one to identify a stable imaginative and semantic complex in describing the city and correlate it with ancient Germanic and Slavic mythology. It is concluded that the image of Vladivostok is determined by the regional natural and cultural invariant which is mostly represented in the symbols of the cross/lighthouse, rock/mountain, root/tree, flower/fire, star/lighthouse. The cognitive and semantic potential of the ‘root’ lexeme is realized; therefore, the implacability of the resilience of the city located on the far side of Russia is introduced into the macrocontext. Cognitive modeling of the image of the city of Vladivostok is due to symbolic images that help comprehend the semantic space of the city as a complex artistic phenomenon.