“…A review of scientific works devoted to these problematics shows a number of researches characterizing the specificity of a short-story genre within the context of a certain national literature (Brown, Cain, 1997;Kennedy, 1995;Vojvodić, 2017;Kudryavtseva, 2009;Gayfiyeva, 2010;Matizheva, 2008;Panteleeva, 2006;Vladimirova, 2011). Moreover, a short story is analyzed in a general context of creative work of a contemporary writer (Simmons, 1992;Kolesnikoff, 1998;Wall, 1993;Shneidman, 1995;Dowsett, 1990;Haensgen, 2015;Mokrova, 2003;Yefremenkov, 2006;Vershinina, 2011;Pushkar, 2007;Budarina, 2010).…”