Reading as a value in Ob-Ugric literatures
The purpose of the article is to identify the unique understanding of the value of having reading skills by the Khanty and Mansi peoples, reflected in works of fiction, to identify the attitude of authors and characters to the ability to read as a value of the world around them. The main content of the article focuses on the analysis of the existence of reading in the literary work of the Ob-Ugric peoples in its axiological aspect, to the opportunities to show the diversity of the presence and manifestation of this ability in the artistic consciousness of the Khanty and Mansi peoples, to find out the role of the ability to read, the desire to master this skill in their ideas about the past, present and future, about the life's meaning. The author of the article refers to the possibilities of semiological analysis, trying to identify the nature and role of such signs as reading, the ability to read in a particular work of art. An refference to the texts of the Ob-Ugric literature, which can be defined as representative, suggests that the understanding of the value of reading is present in the artistic consciousness of the Northern peoples in a variety of forms: as an attempt to overcome the isolation of traditional livelihoods and as one of the foundations of intellectual growth, spiritual maturity, formation of relationship to the world, as well as the interaction and mutual enrichment of the real world and the world, artificially created. The literature of the Khanty and Mansi demonstrates understanding of reading as a certain form of “consumption”, which can be stimulated by the desire to both get pleasure and achieve a completely desired harmonious future; in this aspect, the literature of the Ob-Ugrians demonstrates their ideas about mastering reading skills as a testimony, a sign of a new life.