Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 677-706 ~ ~ ~ УДК 791.43/45 The Image of Siberia in Soviet, Post-Soviet Fiction and Werner Herzog’s Documentary Films Alexandra A. Sitnikova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 12.09.2014, received in revised form 16.11.2014, accepted 21.12.2014 The article studies the concept of Siberia in audio-visual images of cinematography. <...> The research is made on the basis of several fi lms. <...> In Soviet cinematography the concept of Siberia is analyzed on the basis of Ivan Pyr’ev’s “Skazanie o zemle sibirskoi” (“The saga of Siberia”) (1947), in Post-Soviet cinematography this concept is analyzed on the basis of Viacheslav Ross’s “Siberia. <...> Regarding foreign fi lms about Siberia, the author focuses on “Bells from the Deep. <...> Faith and Superstition in Russia” (1993) and “Happy people: a Year in the Taiga” (2011) shot by Werner Herzog, a German fi lm director, in co-directorship with Dmitry Vasyukov, a Russian fi lm director. <...> The research resulted in revealed conceptual images of Siberia translated into the culture of cinematography. <...> Keywords: Siberia, concept, Siberian cinematography, Siberia in cinematography, image of Siberia in fi lms, fi ction fi lms about Siberia, “Skazanie o zemle sibirskoi” (“The saga of Siberia”), “Siberia. <...> Faith and Superstition in Russia”, “Happy people: a Year in the Taiga”. <...> At that by now the audio-visual culture has generated a great number of documentary and fi ction fi lms showing either a more realistic Siberia or, vice versa, enriching this territory with new myths. <...> The present article will focus on the image of Siberia in cinematography. <...> One part of these fi lms is documentary, the other one is fi ction. <...> The article will study some fi ction fi lms about Siberia, which show the evolution of views on this territory from the Soviet times up to the present. <...> It implies the study of foreign cinematography, depicting the image of Siberia, and namely the analysis of Werner Herzog’s fi lm “Bells from the Deep. <...> Faith and Superstition in Russia” and his producer project “Happy people: Alexandra A. Sitnikova. <...> The Image of Siberia in Soviet, Post-Soviet Fiction and Werner Herzog’s Documentary Films a Year in the Taiga”. <...> What explains the interest <...>