The Values of “Place” in the Perception of the Inhabitants of Yenisei Siberia

Abstract

The paper considers the value part of the perception of the place of residence by the residents of Yenisei Siberia. The material was recordings of oral speech of the Yenisei local consciousness carriers made during the expeditions of 2020-2021 in the middle and lower reaches of the Yenisei River. The author reveals the positive fullness of ideas about the Soviet past of the territory. The semantics of fertility, comfort, freedom, creation, connection with ancestral roots constitute a positive part of the axiospace of the Yenisei Siberia. The understanding by a resident of the territory of himself as bearing a positive assessment and obviously good is based on the semantics of the homogeneity of space and its inhabitant.