The study of the specifics of the manifestation of national and cultural codes in the literatures of the peoples of Russia, in particular, in the work of modern Tatar poets, is of great scientific and practical interest for researchers. The article presents the result of a systematic and complex analysis of the work of modern Tatar poets Renat Haris (1941) and Ravil Fayzullin (1943) in the aspect of revealing the originality of the artistic embodiment of national cultural codes. The object of the research is the poems of Renat Haris and Ravil Fayzullin. The subject of the research is the artistic embodiment of national and cultural codes in the works of Renat Haris and Ravil Fayzullin through the analysis of symbolic images, universals, allusions and genres, features of color and light images. The leading research method is a systematic approach, which allows applying historical-functional, historicalgenetic, comparative-typological and historical-functional methods to the study of the work of modern Tatar poets. The article is dominated by an interdisciplinary approach that makes it possible to adequately determine the current state of Tatar literature and literary criticism in the context of the cultures of the peoples of Russia, near and far abroad. The Tatar national picture of the world also includes musical images such as kurai, accordion, etc., in relation to Tatar poetry and music, the concept of “mon” is often used, which is difficult to translate into other languages, in this regard, an analysis of the works of Renat Haris and Ravil Fayzullin allows us to reveal the problem of “untranslatable” in Tatar literature. The work of the studied poets reflects the Tatar national picture of the world, reveals its main components: the image of the motherland and native land, concern for the fate of the Tatar language, literature and culture in the era of globalization. Poets dedicate their poems to the description of national holidays (Sabantuy), traditional symbols of the Tatar people (images of a white leopard (ak leopard), horse, white towel, etc.), spiritual and moral values and the history of the Tatar people are described in their poems.