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ways, whenever I encountered in a human nature turpitude, unconceivable an ger, betrayal, i.e. in Russian people, I recalled that day, May, 1 in Murmansk and tried to regain inner balance” [Jung, 1961, c. 156]. In Jung’s memory end less, deserted and cold space joined with the choir power sang about the future that was beautiful and about people who all were brothers. Revolutionary pa thos, poetic interpretation of the new world contributed to romantic depiction of a Russian man by European authors. In spite of this idealization, there were fa miliar traits of national character: love for freedom, patience, and optimism. § 4. The World War II in the Kola North as it is described in the fiction and the poetry of Russian and European writers. Identity as the unity of human values In 1940s war theme becomes the main one in the Kola North literature. It is important to note that war events characteristics, depiction of a man at war and national character preserve northern folklore traditions as well as Prishvin and Maximov Russian national identity ideas. The writers themselves were sea men and soldiers, frontline correspondents, both those who came from the Kola land (K. Bayov, A. Podstanitsky) and famous Soviet journalists, poets, writers (K. Simonov, V. Kaverin, V. Pikul, I. Ehrenburg). L.T. Panteleeva, a famous re searcher into the Kola North literature remarks that “war time events defined the artistic form of literature works for that period: a lyrical poem and an impartial essay, a heroic ballad and a story, parody, fable, feuilleton, chastushka”. Litera ture is presented by many genres and it was created not only by travelers and journalists but also by defenders of Zapolyarye (the Kola land). They shared their destiny, life and death with native people of the Kola Peninsula. Writers told about seamen and soldiers deeds with a special emphasis on severe nature of the Kola North. They remembered peaceful life and at this point the theme of love and faithfulness becomes the main theme. Alexander Podstanitsky (1920-1942), a journalist, pilot who died at the age of 20 fighting the fascists, became a genuine poet and brave warrior. In his poems “Murmansk in the evening” (“Murmansk vecherom”), “On-the-road song” (“Podorozhnaya”), “A birth of a song” (“Rozhdenie Pesni”), “To tell” (“Rasskazat”) one can recognize images of Murmansk and dear home (high tide of the moorages, beautiful icebreakers, trains leaving for Leningrad) northern nature (newly fallen snow, blue ice, traces of reindeer team), loving and faithful beloved and war (an air fight with fritzes, courageous Messerschmitt ram at tack). The image of the, Kola North in its traditional dimension (severe land, courageous people) also appears in Konstantin Simonov’s works about war (1915—1979). In 1972 he purposefully collects poems, essays, stories written in different years and related to his trips to Zapolyarie (The Kola Land) to be pub 88