Main development trends of the poem genre (based on the material of works of russian poets of Mordovia)
The article considers specific features of functioning of the poem genre in Russian poetry of Mordovia at the end of XX - beginning of XXI century. Its genre-specific modifications are highlighted in the process of analysis. Considerable emphasis is done on the understanding of the poem with the narrative basis. The author comes to the conclusion that historical and heroic poems based on mythology and folklore material of the Mordvin people had the greatest development in the poetry of Mordovia. A detailed analysis of poems by E. Simdyanova, V. Yushkin and A. Sharonov allows the author to talk about the evolution of large genre forms in Russian lyrical epic of Mordovia, in which poetic dialogue of cultures is the most representative.