Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 2013-2021 ~ ~ ~ УДК 398.21 Nenets Children’s Literature: the History and Specificity Ekaterina A. Sertakova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 16.02.2016, received in revised form 19.06.2016, accepted 02.08.2016 This article was written as part of the grant named Creating a Corpus of Texts for Children in Their Native Languages (Evenki, Nenets, Dolgan, Nganasan) as a Way of the Unique Preservation of the Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, and is devoted to the study of Nenets children’s literature. <...> The theoretical part of the article is the rationale for this study. <...> This part determines the object of the study, the purpose and objectives, methodology and directly the source base. <...> The practical part of the work carries out a historiographical review of the study and classification of the Nenets folklore, where the genre of fairy tale takes one of the key places, the specificity of fairy stories, names, acting heroes of fairy tales is revealed, the analysis of such representatives of the children’s literature of the northern Nenets people as Boy Susui, Three Shamans, and others, is done. <...> Based on the material of the analysis of the Nenets fairy tale’s samples, the article determines the specificity of Nenets children’s literature and reveals its educational potential. <...> Keywords: children's literature, the peoples of the North, Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Nenets, fairy tales, traditional knowledge, cultural values, the worldview. <...> The work is executed in connection with the project Creating a Corpus of Texts for Children in Their Native Languages (Evenki, Nenets, Dolgan, Nganasan) as a Way of the Preservation of the Unique Cultural Heritage of the Indigenous Small-numbered Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, supported by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Science Foundation. <...> Introduction The Nenets live in the territory of Krasnoyarsk Krai mainly in the Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets Municipal District, where they have several mono-ethnic villages. <...> The largest number of representatives of this ethnic group is concentrated in the Ust-Yenisei district. <...> The expeditions and the study of the culture and life of the Nenets people identified a number © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: sertachok@mail.ru – 2013 – of problems, which the representatives of this ethnic group face today, namely, the state of the level of health service and education, the quality of life <...>