Folk funeral prayers: the poetics of genre and specificity of existance

The article is devoted to folk funeral prayers. All the texts are fixed by the authors in the northern part of the Komi-Permyak district. The composition of folk prayers is based on an open (incomplete) recital row. The majority of the characters in the texts can be divided into 5 groups: 1) characters of the Christian origin; 2) local founders of settlements known in folklore; 3) characters with names containing the semantics of «opening - closing»; 4) dead relatives («ancestors»); 5) people who unnaturally died ("zalozhnye"). The situation of cultural contacts between Russian and Komi-Permyaks is reflected in the texts of folk funeral prayers.