The Image of Sevastopol in the Works of Ural Soviet Poets
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2016

The paper aims to reveal the characters of Sevastopol created by Soviet Ural poets by using historico-functional, cultural-historical and biographical practices. In one of the first poems written in the 1930s, the city was depicted not only as an outpost of the Southern borders in the Black Sea region but also as a defender of the entire country. This trend continued the pre-revolutionary tradition of Sevastopol’s glorification after the First Defense (1854–1855) during the Crimean War. Sevastop