Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 1932-1944 ~ ~ ~ УДК 316.733; 821 History and Specificity of Literary Activity of Indigenous Peoples Anastasia V. Kistova* and Natalia N. Pimenova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 12.03.2016, received in revised form 15.05.2016, accepted 27.07.2016 The present work is a review of the main stages in the development of literary activity of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East, describing its key peculiarities. <...> It reveals the specificity of poetry and prose. <...> The authors arrive at the conclusion on the specific ethnic features of the literary activity of the indigenous peoples, which may be regarded as one of the efficient ways of constructing ethnocultural and national identity in the modern world. <...> Introduction The oral form of literature of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East have been attracting a lot of attention in Russia since the 18th century. <...> Written literature of the indigenous peoples has been studied since its emergence at the turn of the 19th -20th centuries. <...> Researchers are especially interested in the modern stage of the literature development which falls on the post-Soviet period of history. <...> It was the time of a great leap in creative writing and new conceptual attempts to apprehend the phenomenon, as noticed © Siberian Federal University. <...> Specificity of creative writing of the indigenous peoples is actively studied by some foreign researchers (Heiss, 2014; Driskill, 2011; Knudsen, 2004; Allen, 2002; Heiss, 2003; Shoemaker, 2004). <...> And even though the main features of literature of the indigenous peoples of the North, Anastasia V. Kistova and Natalia N. Pimenova. <...> In her article “Scientific Versions of the Concept of Literature of the Small-Numbered Indigenous Peoples of the North of West Siberia”, O.K. Lagunova (Lagunova, 2011) provides the following classification of the research platforms which still remains up to date. <...> The concept of the European model-based accelerated development (Tsymbalistenko, 2003; Ogryzko, 1998) regards creative activity of the indigenous peoples with compliance to the logic of European literature development, which started from mythology, folklore, heroic epos, went through the stages of Humanism, Classicism, Baroque, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism to Modernism and Post-Modernism, despite the fact that the same process took the indigenous peoples approximately one hundred years. <...> According <...>