Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of one of the forms of literary connections, the study of the artistic characteristics of regional literature. On the example of a number o f works of Kazakh writers and authors related to the history and cultural life of the region, the typological commonality of the system of expressive means, moral values and, in general, the picture of the world is proved.Close attention is paid to the analysis of the Central Asian mythological paradigm, the features of animal symbolism and the semantic content of landscape images. Topoi of the desert, mountains and cities are considered on the material of poetic and prose texts of different genres as multicomponent phenomena, archetypally significant and reflecting the mentality of the people inhabiting the region.