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The article deals with the features of the concept «space» in the poetry of Kazakh narrators (zhyrau). In the given scientific work, the concept of «space» is analyzed from the point of view of its original concept, as a place. Tolgau (songs of praise) of great Kazakh zhyrau Asan Kaigy, Kaztugan and Dospambet served as valuable materials for the study. It is revealed that the concept of «space» in the cognition of narrators is manifested widely and deeply. It is also revealed that, on the one hand, space is reflected in the poetry of narrators as an objective reality, and on the other hand as a conditional concept. It is established that the words relating to the concept «space» in the works of zhyraus XV–XVІ centuries are divided into the names of geographical objects of open space, closed space and abstract space with a figurative meaning varying from concrete to abstract. When considering the concept «space» as a category, it is determined that this concept can be analyzed from the points of view of both linguistics and literary studies, as well as logic, psychology and philosophy, because the concept of «space» refers to the main category of the text. The concept «space» in epic songs of narrators is, first of all, the reality in which the narrators and the people themselves live and in which their way of life is portrayed. The peculiarity of the concept «space» in this case lies in its category to which it belongs. Keywords: concept, closed space, open space, narrator, epic poems, songs of praise.