Аңдатпа
This article examines approaches to defining concepts in various fields of scholarship (cultural studies, linguistics, literary criticism), and formulates the author’s definitions of concepts and the conceptual sphere as applied to conceptual analysis. In the context of the intercultural dialogue between Russia and Kazakhstan, the author examines the influence of L. N. Tolstoy on the conceptual sphere of I. Altynsarin and Sh. Kudaiberdiev and presents the results of a comparative analysis of the main concepts in their works.