Аннотация
The article is devoted to the issue of the national code. It is through fiction that new worlds open up to the reader, taking the soul of stories, extraordinary images. Here, special attention is paid to the symbols of an ethnographic nature. In addition, we will take a detailed look at short stories (miniatures) “Zhalgyz agash”, “Bakhchisaray”, “Balbal”, “Hourglass”, “Raven” from the point of view of national code laureate of the State prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of literature and art named after Abai, member of the Union of writers of Kazakhstan, member of the Union of cinematographers of the CIS and the Baltic States, the independent award “Tarlan”, poet, writer, translator, publisher and essayist, screenwriter of Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov. In Kazakhstan, it is little studied, but based on it, we can understand the current cultural process.