Text, context and semantics in history of ornamental culture of Finno-Ugric peoples

In the article ornament is treated not only as arts and crafts but also as system of methods of integral symbolic representation of the connections of the human being with the nature and socium; socium with macrocosm The conclusion on the historical nature of geometrical ornamental style development (ornament of the Finno-Ugric peoples has a pra-slavic semantics) is made.