Image content of "rain" concept in short story "Time of rains" by Khanty writer E. Aipin

The article reviews cultural concept “rain” considered as a unit of national concept sphere and one of the “constants” of Khanty culture on the material of Eremey Aipin's short story “Time of Rains”. This concept combines natural, geographic, religious and other specific signs of Khanty linguistic culture, and hence has special expression in the context of image structure of artistic work.