Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 2044-2059 ~ ~ ~ УДК 7.06 Decoration of Children’s Literature of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East Mariia A. Kolesnik* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 24.04.2016, received in revised form 18.06.2016, accepted 19.08.2016 The article discusses the basic principles of decoration of children’s literature of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East that are used by the artists-illustrators. <...> The author carries out an analysis of several illustrations of some fairy tales of the peoples of the North, an analysis of decoration of fairy tale collections in order to determine which image of a certain ethnic group they form. <...> The article briefly describes the work of such masters of children’s illustration as E.K. Evenbakh, N.G. Basmanova, G.D. Pavlishin and E.M. Rachev. <...> Keywords: children’s literature, Dolgans, art of illustration, art of the peoples of the North, book graphics, indigenous peoples, fairy tales of the peoples of the North, Nanai, Nenets, E.K. Evenbakh, G.D. Pavlishin, E.M. Rachev, N.G. Basmanova. <...> The work is implemented under the framework of the project “Creating a text corpus for children in their native languages (Evenki, Nenets, Nganasan, Dolgan) as a way to preserve the unique cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Territory)” supported by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Science Foundation. <...> Illustrating collections of fairy tales, poems, primers and other printed publications, the target audience of which were children, has been main occupation of such outstanding masters as I.Ia. <...> Introducing children with their native culture, with other cultures, is carried out, © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: masha_kolesnik@mail.ru – 2044 – among other things, through a book, in the structure of which illustration plays a significant role. <...> Such authors as M.A. Alueva (2010) and O.E. Nechaeva (2008) note that in many respects the child’s attention is attracted by the visual image. <...> Decoration of Children’s Literature of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East attention to illustration possibilities in the children’s book structure. <...> That is why it is so important <...>