Tydym-kyshtym: mythopoetics of space in the works of A. Petrushkin

The article is devoted to the study of the mythopoetics of space in A. Petrushkin’s poetry. We examined the book of poems The Geometry of Escape and the egodocument Tydymsky Diary. Memories of Eden, in which the poet reveals the meaning of the designation of Kyshtym by the occasional toponym Tydym and mythologizes it. The mythologization of space in the poetry of modern Ural authors is a trend, a key element of the literary strategy of such poets as Vitaly Kalpidi, Yanis Grants, Alexander Samoilov, and others. In his work, Alexander Petrushkin largely continues the traditions of Ural myth-makers. The article defines the principles of the formation of mythologized space: A. Petrushkin departs from the classical description of urban space. Tydym is presented by the poet as a parallel reality to Kyshtym, a mythologized space filled with Christian and ancient mythologems. In the image of Tydym, Petrushkin sees the reality of inner purification, and death as an element of the rebirth of a person and a poet. The main images and mythologems with which Tydym’s chronotope is filled are also analyzed; a metarealistic approach to the formation of natural images in synthesis with Christian mythologems is considered.