Riauzov Maya G. Smolina*, Anastasia N. Tamarovskaya, Daria V. Smirnova, Natalia A. Fedoriako, Marina A. Legkova, Larisa N. Vergeichik and Alexandra I. Tat’ianina Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 18.11.2014, received in revised form 28.12.2014, accepted 21.01.2015 This paper analyzes the relationship of man and the world in the picturesque landscapes of the Krasnoyarsk painter B.Ia. <...> The authors consider two basic philosophical issues, refl ected in the work of the Siberian artist, i.e. confl ict between “nature” (also fi rst nature) and “culture” (second, man-made nature), idyllic relationship between man and the world. <...> Keywords: painting, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Boris Iakovlevich Riauzov, relationship of man and the world, landscape, socialist realism, the Great Patriotic War, horizontal composition, urban landscape, existential problems. <...> Introduction Style, which is prominent in the paintings of outstanding creative Krasnoyarsk master of landscape Boris Iakovlevich Riauzov (1919-1994), is called socialist realism. <...> It is kind of dramatization of the birth of the second reality from the colorful landscape. <...> Besides, landscape is a traditional genre for surface, preserving the form of thick brush strokes. <...> This manner of painting forces the process of fi ghting between the brush stroke and that second reality, conveyed by this stroke, i.e. this is the struggle between artistic material and artistic form. <...> Following the tradition of his teacher D.I. Karatanov Boris Riauzov was solving the problem of determining by the Siberian man their own place in the world in depicting the native and vast homeland of Siberia. <...> Riauzov museum’s permanent exhibition (Krasnoyarsk) there are two main and modeled philosophical problems: the confl ict between “nature” (fi rst nature) and Maya G. Smolina, Anastasia N. Tamarovskaya… Man-World Relationship in the Landscapes of B.Ia. <...> Culture and nature The juxtaposition of nature and culture as a confl ict of human existence in the godless world, in a kind of desert of atheistic existence, and the situation of mutual repulsion of the material and the spiritual are characteristic for dramatic “war landscapes” of Boris Iakovlevich Riauzov, who became involved in exhibitions in very 1941. <...> Being at the front, the artist participated in creative work to the possible extent by creating works <...>