RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)7470Research ArticleThe concept of a tree or «Ode to Elm»MukhamadievH SDepartment of Russian Philology, Russian and World Literature Faculty of Philology, Literature and World Languageskuralay555@mail.ruMusalyL ZhDepartment of Theory and Methodology of Translation Faculty of Philology, Literature and World LanguagesPD.kafedra_96@mail.ruKazakh National University n. a. al-Farabi150220142697608092016Copyright © 2014, Mukhamadiev H.S., Musaly L.Z.2014The article is devoted to the contemporary creativity of the outstanding poet Olzhas Suleymenov. In poetic texts of different authors the mage of O. Suleymenov is mapped to the way of sustainable tree. Poems of Suleymenov are inherent in colorful imagery, metaphors. The title of the poem by O. Suleymenov «Earth, bow, man» («Zemlya, poklonis, cheloveku») as the author’s line and the poem «Karagatch» (Elm) became the intertextual bridge for poetic texts of his followers.Suleymenovconceptualizationthe character conceptthe imagethe Russian-language literatureintertextualtreeKara-AgachfitonimpoetryintertextauthordictionarygeniusСулейменовконцептуализациясимволконцептобразрусскоязычная литератураинтертекстуальныйдеревокарагачфитонимфитотопонимпоэтический текстинтертекставторсловарьгений