Poetic Oeuvre in Context of Murman Literature of Second Half of 20th Century

This article examines the literary oeuvre of Vikdan Sinitsyn, a prominent writer from Murmansk whose work spans the second half of the twentieth century. The primary objective of this study is to delineate the specific features of his poetic output within the broader framework of the Murman literary process. The analytical corpus comprises four poetry collections: A Cry in the Ocean , The Fall of Apples , Indian Summer , and The Hope's Flashing Light . The research employs a comprehensive methodological toolkit, integrating biographical and historical-literary approaches with motif and linguocognitive analysis. The novelty of the study lies in its presentation of the first systematic and multifaceted analysis of V. Sinitsyn's poetics. The findings demonstrate that his work is organically integrated into the context of late Soviet and post-Soviet regional poetry, reflecting the fundamental existential concerns of the poet's contemporary world, chief among them being the fate of Russia and the Kola Arctic, as well as the human condition at the turn of an epoch. The study concludes that Sinitsyn's poetry constitutes a cohesive artistic system in which a Christian worldview, the mythopoetic conceptualization of reality, and social reflection merge into a unified whole. The analysis foregrounds such distinctive features of Sinitsyn's poetics as structural contrast, the de-idealization of the sea, vivid metaphoricity, and binary mythopoetics — elements identified here for the first time. Prospects for further inquiry are identified in the direction of a detailed comparative study of Sinitsyn's poetics vis-à-vis other regional authors, as well as in the analysis of the melodic structure of his verse.