Abstract
The article highlights the problem of the relationship between the culture of peoples and communication. The idea is emphasized that the construction, implementation, improvement, transmission, understanding and reproduction of any culture is carried out on the basis of a certain system of signs and sign systems and communication. Peoples, having mastered certain, special sign systems inherent only to their ethnic group, can build relationships with representatives of other cultures and other peoples. The features of interaction between peoples in an intercultural context are explored in the literary texts of the Kazakh Russian writer, a native of Northern Kazakhstan, I.P. Shukhov, who from childhood absorbed the “cultural codes” of not only his people, but also the Kazakhs and Ukrainians, among whom the personality of the future poet was formed. The writer’s literary texts reflect knowledge, abilities, skills, forms of behavior, traditions and customs transmitted from one generation to another in the process of communication of both native and neighboring peoples, demonstrating the characteristic features of interaction between peoples in an intercultural context.