“I'm Looking Outside the Window When the Mountains Begin”: the Genre of the Book “A Trip to the Urals” by Elizabeth Polonskaya

The article examines the genre originality of book “A Trip to Urals” by E. G. Polonskaya, written as a result writer’s business trip Sverdlovsk and Ural Region, while working reporter for Leningradskaya Pravda in 1926. Urals”, which first came into focus close research attention, is perceived journalistic text created era Soviet construction, reconstruction factories cities. EG Polonskaya succeeds capturing not just restoration production after Civil War, but proceeding fixing “our achievements”; scale her vision many ways anticipated new — industrialization. concludes that terms genre, continued traditions travel literature became version guide, consisting compilation notes, feuilleton essays.