FANTASTIC IN THE RUSSIAN PROSE IN THE 20-30-S YEARS OF THE XX CENTURY
The article is devoted to the issue of the formation of the Russian fantastic prose in the 20-30 years of the XX century. Problems of theoretical justification of the concept of «fantastic» and the genre of science fiction, in particular, are outlined. A hundred years Russian fantastic prose evolution are shown from the 20 years of the XIX century to the 30 years of the XX century. A Russian science fiction literature in the context of the achievements of scientific thought of the XIX-XX centuries, early XX century peculiarities of the artistic poetics of science fiction novels by A. N. Tolstoy «Aelita» (1922-1923) and A. R. Belyaev «Jump into nothing» (1933) are analyzed.