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Abstract. The article deals with the creative work of the Abaza writer Bemurza Khangerievich Tkhaitsukhov in the context of the state of people’s spiritual culture, the specific peculiarities of its development, the level of its historical and spiritual self-awareness and aesthetic self-expression. B. Tkhaitsukhov made a significant contribution to the development of the genres of the Abaza literature, to the enrichment of its poetics, to the philosophical understanding of a human being and the surrounding world in the national artistic images and definitions. The prose and the poetry of the distinctive Abaza writer are remarkable for their proximity to the national and artistic traditions of his people. B. Tkhaitsukhov uses skillfully the aesthetic and epic techniques of folklore, which in turn enriches his artistic palette.

Key words and phrases: Б. Тхайцухов, абазинская литература, поэзия и проза, национальная литература, духовная культура народа, историческое и духовное самосознание, ценности народного бытия, этнонациональный мирообраз, B. Tkhaitsukhov, Abaza literature, poetry and prose, national literature, spiritual culture of the people, historical and spiritual self-awareness, values of people’s being, ethnonational world image