Sinuous ridges in the Polesie region (SE Poland) as inverted fluvial channels: morphology, structure, and genesis

At the present stage of development of soil science, the essence of soil formation and soil morphogenesis is considered primarily through the prism of changes in the soil itself, since they are determined by the specifics of regimes and elementary soil processes (ESP). Recognition of the dominant role of ESP allowed us to take as a basis the phenomenological definition of soil morphogenesis as the process of soil profile formation under the combined influence of natural biolithogenic and anthropogenic factors that determine the genesis, composition and properties of modern soils. It includes the transformation of mineral components, the development of soil horizons and the formation of morphological features of the soil. The aim of our research was to study the features of the morphogenesis of Rendzic Leptosols within the Western Ukrainian Region by establishing the direction, rates and intensity of their formation in various lithological, bioclimatic and natural-anthropogenic conditions. The subject of the study was the daily chronoseries of unaltered soil-forming rocks, in particular, products of eluviogenesis of writing chalk, chalk marls, clotted, chemogenic and lithothamnium limestone and a set of soil varieties of Rendzic Leptosols, which are divided by profile thickness into: poorly developed (< 25 cm), short-profile (25 – 45 cm) and full-profile (> 45 cm) and have certain morphogenetic differences caused by lithological, bioclimatic and natural-anthropogenic conditions of the plain part of the Western Ukrainian Region. Comparative-geographical, morphological-genetic, comparative-analytical, statistical methods and the method of chronoseries were applied. It was established that the total area of Rendzic Leptosols of the Western Ukrainian Region is 149.5 thousand hectares. The largest areas of continuous distribution of Rendzic Leptosols are concentrated within the southwestern part of the Polesie region. The most common subtype of Rendzic Leptosols in the Western region of Ukraine are typical Rendzic Leptosols with an underdeveloped (underdeveloped and short-profile) and normal (modal) type of profile structure (full-profile). Leached Rendzic Leptosols occupy significantly smaller areas. Studies have shown that the features of the morphogenesis of Rendzic Leptosols in the Western Ukrainian Region are primarily due to biogenic-accumulative and eluvial processes of soil formation, among which litter formation, turf process, humus formation and humus accumulation, as well as decarbonation, decalcification and liming play a decisive role. At the same time, the dominant soil formation processes in anthropogenically disturbed Rendzic Leptosols of artificially created terrace complexes are anthropogenic and pedoturbation processes. Key words: Rendzic Leptosols (WRB); soil morphogenesis; elementary soil processes; products of eluviogenesis; morphogenetic properties of soils.

The article analyzes the “genus” as an element of the conceptual sphere of the traditional West Polesie village society. The main focus is on the social landscape of the village, namely the issue of identification, status differentiation and naming of girls by genus. The problem of gender-oriented views in the spiritual culture of the Belarusians has been studied specifically in the national humanities. The generic ideas of the Belarusians in the context of social culture have been covered insufficiently. Belarusian researchers have not focused on the issues related to determining the influence of generic consciousness on the social status of individual gender, age and status groups. The research conducted by the author is based on the materials collected as a result of personal field research in 2015–2024 in rural areas of the Western Polesie. About 80 villagers born in the 1920s and 1980s were interviewed. The analysis of the materials gives grounds to draw the following conclusions: the social order in the West Polesie village largely determined the ancestral way of life. According to it, each family was assigned a certain place in the structure of the society. The affiliation to certain family obviously outlined the position of a girl in the society at the current moment and also determined the boundaries of her social opportunities in the future. The “bench tradition” played a significant role in the formation of stereotypical opinions about girls. It was a tradition for women to spend their free time together talking in an open space (on the benches). The position of potential brides in a village society was influenced by the status of the family which was usually assigned epithets of an evaluative nature (rich/poor, honorable/simple, hardworking/lazy, healthy/sick). Moreover, the reputation of the girls correlated with the generic nicknames, which were widespread in the Western Polesie region. In addition, generic nicknames performed a socially distinctive function which indicated the status of the nominee in the society. Generic nicknames of the female population are still an integral component of the anthroponymic space of the modern village of the Western Polesie. In oral communication, mainly among the older population, the principle of identifying a person by genus has been preserved. This indicates the “survivability” of traditional views.

Shallow lakes according to the alternative states theory may present extremely different environmental conditions, clear water with abundant growth of macrophytes and turbid water with cyanobacterial blooms. The deterioration of water quality led to visible changes within submerged macrophytes and thus in available habitats for plant-associated biocenosis. Larvae of chironomids are the most numerous and widely distributed macroinvertebrates. Since benthic chironomids are used in the monitoring of environmental changes and in paleolimnological research, epiphytic chironomids are not well known in this regard. The larvae can be used as indicators of lake macrophyte status. The present study focuses on plant-associated chironomids of a group of ten shallow lakes of the Polesie region (eastern Poland). The lakes were classified with alternative states theory as macrophyte-dominated (MD), phytoplankton–macrophyte-dominated (PMD) and phytoplankton-dominated (PD). The domination structure of epiphytic chironomids showed significant changes between lake types, with the highest abundance of Paratanytarsus austriacus in MD lakes, Endochironomus albipennis in PMD lakes and Cricotopus sp. (gr. sylvestris) in PD lakes. The highest mean density was noted in PD lakes while the highest species diversity (values of Shannon–Wiener index) in PMD lakes. Moreover, environmental variables (macrophyte biomass, Secchi disc depth, chlorophyll-a and TP) differentiating lake types were used in RDA analysis to evaluate their effect on chironomid taxa distribution. Next, the variables with a significant effect on specific chironomid taxa were used in multivariate regression analysis. The results led to the creation of a model of distribution of chironomid taxa with regard to lake type.

Due to the relatively small number of lakes in the southern part of Belarus, in the Polesie region, each lake and its bottom sediments are of great scientific interest for palaeoecological reconstructions. Lake Sporovskoye is one of the largest lakes in Belarusian Polesie, previously studied in the field of palaeoecology by a number of researchers. The discovery in 2018 of the Kakoryca-4 archaeological site near Lake Sporovskoye inspired the beginning of this study, during which new palaeoecological data were obtained. The purpose of the article was to build palaeoecological reconstructions based on spore-pollen, macroremains, sedimentological, and radiocarbon analyses of the Sporovo II core. As a result, it was proven that Lake Sporovskoye was formed in the Late Glacial. Water level changes in the lake, as well as a period of increased activity of the Yaselda River, were detected in the Holocene. The author proposed the reconstructions of regional and local vegetation and corrected some previous views on the development of the study area in the Late Glacial and Holocene.

The article offers an analysis of the toponyms found in rhymed sentences accompanying the local rite of celebrating a farewell to winter and welcoming spring in Western Polesie (Brest, Volyn, Rivne regions). The ceremony is timed to the first Sunday or Monday after Easter and is a typical example of ritual expulsion (in this case, of the calendar season). The range of toponyms, as well as the vector nature of the expulsion of winter from its “own” to some “outer” space bring insight into the local ideas about symbolic boundaries, as well as the formation of mental maps reflecting the mythology of space in the minds of (micro)local population. Verbal formulas including toponyms demonstrate different ways of structuring space by means of a language (from the center to the periphery, inside and outside of the “own” space, crossing symbolic boundaries), outline the main vectors of the ritual path of the mythologized character (the winter) — microlocal, local, regional, state. In some cases, the choice of the place of winter’s exile from a particular locality is determined by its status and significance for the local confessional tradition. Some forms of toponyms recorded in folklore texts are conditional on the structure of the text (the name changes under the influence of rhyme, consonance, alliteration). The vocabulary of the winter send-off ceremony is organically consistent with the ethnodialect subdivision of Polesie. The expulsion of winter to the west is determined by the clear western border of the region where the rite takes place (the Drogichin — Pruzhany — Kamen-Kashirsky line). Taking into account the division of the Polesie region along the north-south axis, the author argues that for the rite that is spread exclusively in the northern part of Western Polesie, the south (southwest, southeast) becomes the priority direction of the expulsion of winter from the “own” into the “outer” space which is evidenced by toponyms from ritual texts.

Climate Change Impacts on Bioproductivity of Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Belarusian-Ukrainian Polesie Region

The article is analyzing the functioning of the socio-cultural association “Polisse” in the context of the socio-political and national-cultural life of Belarus during the period of Soviet “Perestroika” and in the first years of independence. It considers various aspects of the organization’s activity in the structure of the Belarusian Cultural Foundation, as well as in alliance with other political forces (Belarusian People’s Front, Ukrainian Party “Rukh”, “Party of People’s Accord”, “Coordinating Committee of Public and Political Movements of the Republic of Belarus”, “People’s Movement of Belarus”). An attempt is made to draw up a political portrait of the leader of the Western Polesie movement Nikolai Shelyagovich. The article also analyzes the arguments of the opponents to the Western Polesie movement from among the representatives of the power and intellectual elites of Belarus (inadmissibility of politicization of ethnicity, anti-scientific statements about the existence of a separate West Polesie people, lack of objective prerequisites for the autonomization of the Polesie region). The basis for the source base of the work were first introduced into the scientific turnover documents of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus and the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (appeals of the leaders of the West Polesie movement to various authorities, analytical notes sent to the Commission on National Policy and Interethnic Relations of the Supreme Council of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic / Republic of Belarus, minutes of meetings of academic institutions, at which the activities of Socio-cultural association “Polisse” were discussed)

The influence of interannual and long-term climate change impacts on net primary production (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems in the central part of the Belarusian-Ukrainian Polesie region (50.7°-53° N, 25.5°-31.5° E) are investigated using satellite observations and reanalysis data. The results show that nowadays Polesie belongs to the zone of excessive heat and solar radiation resources and insufficient moisture resources. The interannual variations in NPP in Polesie are 2-3 times higher than in the other parts of Eastern Europe. Climate change in the recent 50 years led to the reduction of the total carbon stock in the vegetation cover of the region (at the rate of ~750000 t/year). However, a number of natural and anthropogenic processes not related to the climate compensate the climate-related carbon loss in the terrestrial biomass. Moreover, these processes cause a slow growth of carbon at the rate of 140000 t/year in the region.

The article analyzes the most important aspects of the ethno-cultural policy of the interwar Poland in relation to the indigenous East Slavic population of the Polesie region in the 1930s on the example of publications of the local Russian-language periodicals and the attitude towards them by the local Polish authorities. Particular attention is given to the newspaper Pod nebom Poles’ya, published in the Russian literary language in the late 1931 – early 1932 in Pinsk, Polesie Voivodeship of the interwar Poland. The publications in Pod nebom Poles’ya actively promoted the all-Russian identity and Russian culture, considering Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from the point of view of the triune Russian people. In addition, the newspaper voiced cautious criticism of the national policy of the Polish authorities and the population census to encourage the local East Slavic population to preserve their language, culture, and national identity. Since the content of the publications in Pod nebom Poles’ya was unacceptable to the Polish authorities, striving for the complete and final Polonization of the Belarusian population of the eastern provinces of Poland, the local Polish administration pursued a policy of administrative pressure on the newspaper. As a result, Pod nebom Poles’ya was closed, despite its high popularity with the local people. A similar policy of administrative strangulation of objectionable Russian-language periodicals was carried out in relation to other newspapers of Polesie. Thus, the ethnocultural policy of the Polish administration in Polesie in the media sphere was based on in the systemic suppression of the Russian-language press, which defended the ideas of the civilizational unity of the East Slavic peoples.

The research analyzed seasonal changes of the oxygen regime and related indicators on the example of water objects of the Ukrainian Polesie Region. The region shows different directions of economic use. Zebrafish ( Danio rerio Hamilton–Buchanan) and the Prussian carp ( Carassius auratus gibelio Bloch) were used as test objects to investigate survival responses. Dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in water, pH values and temperatures were determined by standard methods. Based on research results, the main problems were determined pertaining to the oxygen regime of investigated waters, i.e. the increase in temperature and toxicity of the aquatic environment in the summer. A rather dangerous decrease in DO concentration, almost up to the levels of maximum allowable concentration (MAC) (4.10 mg∙dm–3 in group E1 and 6.07 mg∙dm–3 in group E2), was observed in August and it was typical for the reservoirs with a slow water movement. Flowing river waters (group E3) were eliminated due to their better aeration compared to other groups. The correlation analysis based on the presented data revealed a high and average degree of probable correlation between the DO concentration and water temperature, as well as an average degree of correlation with general toxicity determined on sensitive species of D. rerio, and in group E1 on the persistent species C. auratus gibelio as well. The interrelations and equations of the rectilinear regression can be used to predict the oxygen regime of the waters investigated and other surface waters having similar problems.

The article considers new approaches to the study of the structure of natural landscapes, the identification of typical and rare landscapes of Pripyatsky National Park and their mapping using GIS-technologies that allow the creation of digital landscape maps. The relevance of the work is to create the first digital maps for the Pripyatsky National Park, which can be used to expand the network of ecological routes, increase the number of objects of inspection of the territory by tourists, monitoring forests and swamps. The created digital landscape map reflects the hierarchical levels and structure of natural complexes in the rank of genera, species and tracts, as well as the principles of their selection, which correspond to scientific approaches to the classification of landscapes of the Belarusian school of landscape studies. As a result, the main factor of the selection of genera is the genesis, species – the nature of relief, tracts – features of relief and soil-vegetation cover. The mapping of landscapes of specially protected natural areas (SPNA) of the Republic of Belarus using GIS-technologies was first tested on the example of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve and three national parks (Narochansky, Braslavskie Ozera, Belovezhskaya Pushcha). The digital landscape map of the Pripyatsky National Park, which illustrates the territorial distribution of 4 genera, 19 types of landscapes and 3 types of tracts, helped to clarify the boundaries of landscape units and served as the basis for identifying typical and rare landscapes, which is especially important for identifying rare landscapes that have preserved their natural appearance and have a special nature conservation value and in need of special protection. A digital map of typical and rare landscapes shows that within the boundaries of the park are widely represented species of lake-swamp and alluvial terraced landscapes, typical for the Polesie region, rare landscapes are confined to the floodplain landscape of the Pripyat River with ridged relief, old lakes, floodplain oak forests and tall grass meadows. In general, the identified typical landscapes of the Pripyatsky National Park are representative of the Polesie landscape province and reflect its regional features, and rare ones are found only in this region and emphasize its individuality. Digital maps made it possible to reveal the complex structure of landscapes, to discover not only typical and rare landscapes, but also unique objects in the rank of a natural boundary, and thereby show a more diverse landscape structure of the park than is reflected in the Landscape map of the Republic of Belarus (2014).

The paleolandscapes existed in the eastern area of the Belarusian Polesie region during the climatic optimum of the Muravian Interglacial were reconstructed.
 This work was based on the paleogeomorphological chart compiled with the core data of boreholes located in the investigation area, the composition of sediments, an approximate depth to the groundwater table, as well as on the evidences of the flora and vegetation in the warmest phase of the Muravian Interglacial obtained as a result of the palynological studies of the relevant sediments.
 The data available suggest that the flat landscapes of the temperate continental broad-leaved forest type existed in the investigation area at that time. This type landscapes are divided into 6 groups including 14 kinds and 10 varieties.
 The represented chart of the paleolandscapes reflects an absolute predominance of the broad-leaved forests, but in contrast to the western part of the Belarusian Polesie with a lesser participation of the West European species peculiar to the areas with the warmer oceanic climate.
 The completed reconstructions can be used to forecast the possible future landscape changes on the Belarusian
 Polesie region under the global warming conditions, which can exceed the parameters of the Holocene climatic optimum and reach the climax of the Muravian interglacial.

Human impact since medieval times in the western part of Lublin Polesie against the background of Holocene climate changes: record from Lake Mytycze in the Wieprz-Krzna Canal System (SE Poland)

The article analyses the application of dialectological methods in studies of Slavic mythological system, as exemplified by the parallels between Polesie, the Carpathians and the Balkans. Possibility of implementing dialectology in the field of folklore studies is connected to the concept of ethnocultural area – a set of features, characteristic for a tradition, that are common in a certain area and stable geography-wise. The article considers dialectal distribution in Polesie of the following four motives: 1) «a snake that no one has seen acquires mythological features»; 2) a dead man becomes “walking dead”, if an animal has jumped over the body; 3) to keep the dead man from “walking” someone tells him nonsense; 4) a man turns into a werewolf, if his parents violated any prohibitions. Mapping of these motifs on the territory of Polesie demonstrates that their distribution is noted exclusively in central Polesie and, partially, in western Polesie. The density of these motives in the Polesie region is small, while in the Carpathian region they are represented widely. The presented material demonstrates the links between these regions. The mapping method allows us to understand the formation of Polesie mythological system and to solve the problem of diachronic description of the East Slavic tradition.

The article is based on materials of ethnographic research among Ukrainians who live in the north of the Kulunda steppe (in the south of Western Siberia). onsidered are mythological images and plots about witches, mermaids, infernal dead (vampires), methods of protection from them. Differences were found among local groups of immigrants from the Kiev and Poltava provinces who arrived in Siberia at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. It was found that the image of a mermaid among the Kiev immigrants in Siberia coincides with the beliefs of the Polesie region. The differences are related to the peculiarities of ethnocultural traditions and folk beliefs of the original regions. These features can be markers of the ethnocultural identity of local groups of Siberian Ukrainians.

Abstract The article focuses on the problem of structure degradation and ecosystem functioning – the urgency that identifies the relevance of operations at a strategic level aimed at providing the integrated assessment of ecological stability of water. Determination of water quality indicators were divided into blocks according to the criteria of salt composition, according to chemical saprobological indicators and the content of specific substances of toxic and radiation action. According to the results of block analysis, the integrated ecological index of water quality was determined by the dependence of water quality on the indicators of ecological stabilization of the landscape and the structure of biotechnical elements. The article determines the relationships between worsening quality of surface waters and stabilization or destabilization of the landscape structure. The research was conducted on medium and large streamflows on the Right Bank of Polesie region of the Dnieper-River cascade within which the tracts of land were identified and the landscape ecological stability (CESL1) and landscape biotechnical elements coefficients (CESL2) were determined. The retrospective analysis was performed of the surface water features on the Right Bank of Polesie region of the Dnieper-River cascade and the main trends in salt block indicators, trophic and saprobiological block indicators, and in the content of toxic and radioactive substances at observation sites were estimated. Based on obtained data, the integrated assessment in trends of surface water quality on the Right Bank of Polesie region of the Dnieper-River cascade was made and the main parameters and scale of stabilization and destabilization of landscape impact on the water quality formation were defined.

Goal. The study of the effectiveness technology of potato cultivation for the phytosanitary state of tubers in the conditions of the Polesie region of Ukraine.
 Methods. Research of production crops of the Gabenets farm. Monitoring of major fungal diseases on potato tubers. Identification of phytopathogens on potato tubers. Farming technology consisted of 9 stages and included 6 herbicide-fungicidal treatments in the growing season of potato plants. Samples were collected and phytopathological analysis of potato tubers during harvest was conducted according to conventional methods. Identification of pathogens of fungal diseases was carried out at the Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, according to conventional methods.
 Results. The performance of potato varieties in the application of a set of protection measures in FG “Gabenets” was evaluated. It was analyzed that the yields of varieties on the production crops of the farm were quite high and ranged from 50.25 to 58.10 t / ha, and the yield from one bush — from 1.014 kg to 1.163 kg. The highest yield was on production crops of the Pirol variety and amounted to 58.10 t / ha, compared to the control — 47.30 t / ha. Phytopathological analysis of potato chips varieties was carried out, which resulted in the detection of dry fusarium potato rot in control variants of Opal, Karlenа, Fantasia and Kibitz. No crop disease was detected in production crops where a system of protective measures was applied. Pirol cultivar has proven to be resistant to fungal pathogens.
 Conclusions. Protective measures during the vegetation of potato plants prevented the mass development of fungal diseases on potato tubers, which in turn will have a positive effect on the stickiness of the tubers and preserve their marketability.

The index of the Prognosis Rural Landscape Preferences (IPRLP) as a tool of generalizing peoples’ preferences on rural landscape

The article is devoted to the study on an element of the Chernobyl conflict; specifically addressing the comparisons of a travel essay, «Oformland: A Stroll to the Zone» by Markiyan Kamysh and various documentary films produced by global artists, on philosophical and psychological problems that came with this tragedy. Attention is drawn to the genre aspect of the work, which combines features of travel essays and problematic essays. A comparative analysis of artistic and documentary films are made with films such as: «I Remember ..», «The Ranger From the Atmospheric Zone», «Aurora», «The Truth About Chernobyl», «The State of Chernobyl: 30 Years After the Accident», a French film by Eliza Hayzen «Prayer» for the motto of the work of the laureates of the Nobel Prize Svetlana Alekseevich «Chornobyl Prayer», etc. with essay by Markiyan Kamysha, showing the relevance of the study of human condition through philosophy and psychology in the Exclusion Zone. The film exposes the existential states of man in the conditions of a nuclear disaster from Chernobyl, which, according to T. Hundorova, stimulates the deployment of existential and futuristic philosophy, causing loneliness, disturbance, and uncertainty in the future during apocalyptic conditions.However, the hero-narrator, being in a ruined world, along with anti-social types, thefts, drug addicts, poachers, etc., comes here for other emotions: restlessness, restoration, and perceives the Zone as a place of pilgrimage and creative searches. He, like the hero of the film Anton Buslov, seeks to come here (more than two hundred days in the radiation zone, or more than 45 trips, which goes mainly to himself or with the same stalkers, young people, and who can spontaneously, deliberately not preparing them, even on New Year’s and Christmas holidays, and even writing an essay, the author is not sure that he will not return to the Zone anymore) or as settlers to stay alive forever on their fatherland, or to constantly existential, to pass a certain ritual of initiation, to feel absolute calm, ovne rebirth so why even dedicated one part «Polesian Zen». Her name is based on the author’s philosophy, because he calls the Polesie region a part of Zen that resembles the direction of Buddhist philosophy. The part is not only symbolic but also culminating in the process of transcendence. In general, virgin part of Polissya is a territory to inspire not only the author but also many TV presidents, actors, writers, and well-known performers.In the conditions of catastrophism and domination in the modern world of technological thinking, according to the philosophers-existentialists S. Kierkegaard, M. Heidegger, J.-P. Sartre, P. Tillich, and others, the problems of authenticity, freedom, personal choice etc escalate. Existence of the hero-traveler is actualized through the concepts of «freedom», «alienation», «anxiety», «fear» and is manifested in its boundary psychological states for the purpose of self-design. The purpose of the trip to the hero, like other stalkers, is to comprehend a philosophical category such as «freedom», which existentialists identify with а man, and various manifestations of «freedom from» and «freedom to», that’s why it is so important for the author the state of alienation (social, biological, psychological). Since the author does not depict the external world from which the hero escapes, although he hints at it (the city of Kiev, the vanity, indifference), the hero narrator is in a state of perception for «freedom for» and tries to understand the essence of human life after a catastrophe, to know its essence, to feel special emotions and to survive special emotional states. The alienation that the narrator calls one of the motivations to travel to the Zone makes it possible to feel the loss of authenticity in the modern world and find it in Polissya, in the Zone. The author captures the individual properties of the traveler in the ecological, historical and national environment. Constantly mentioned in the essay, the state of anxiety and fear arises as a result of the destruction of social responsibilities and roles in the faceless society and gives a sense of freedom.Phenomenological level of emotions has in the text qualitative and quantitative characteristics. In particular, in the cognitive sphere, the cognition of the natural world, interaction with it, and self-knowledge, the psychological world of the hero and his existence are expressed through the visual, vibrational, auditory modalities that reflect the range of emotions. In general, we can distinguish in the text perverse, romantic, gnostic, aesthetic, hedonistic, and akisitive emotions. They are at the same time a reflection of the existential state and the motivation for the narrator. He himself calls emotions in the text and seeks to survive in the surrounding world, especially for him and all who are looking for them: in the Zone and in some places such as the village of Krasnoy, the space and the time of existence.The existence and category of time, which in the philosophy of existentialists (in particular, Heidegger) received an ontological interpretation, limited, available for review, only through plot time. Existential time and space in the essay are not identical to the plot time, although sometimes they coincide. Plot time is determined by routes, climaxes, recorded in time. The time of existence – the intersection of the past, the present and the future opens in a special place (in the sketch of a separate part, with a special name that separates plot, psychological, line) for the heroes associated with God – the church or the naked world of nature. Here, the existence is needed not only for the reflection of emotions and psychology, knowledge of the natural world, but also its own ontology, the horizons of understanding the existence, the reflection of the structure of the existential «I». Such a space is minimally saturated with facts, objects of real time, toponyms, co-authors, in order to convey the dynamism of the time of existence, elusiveness. Hero is experiencing such existential states as fear, anxiety, happiness, pleasure. The exposition of the author reveals the range of basic emotions, percepts their experiences and creates a motivational system of human existence, and according to the existential-analytical theory of psychology (A. Langle), the human’s perception of the value of herself and with a purely psychological dimension, emotional experience is translated into a category of spiritual relations of man with the world. Also, these states, the existence demonstrate the readiness of the individual to change, readiness for new growth, to the creative activity, as a result of which Marcian Kamysh began to write a essay, Anatoly Buslova (the main character, «I Remember») was a creative impulse – painted the church, painted pictures, Svetlana Alekseyevich wrote the «Chornobyl prayer».In the world of nature, the traveler experiences a whole range of basic emotions (both positive and negative, according to K. Izard): interest, joy, fear or its anticipation, exposing natural instincts. However, he is not afraid of the world of nature, but the world of people: the same stalkers, or criminals, looters. Natural instincts are so exposed (and the feelings of the hero are not going through for the first time) that he can distinguish any motion, smell, sound and guess it. Nature paintings in different seasons, large plans help the author to reflect the palette of sensations during the weather, absolute desolation and silence, the attack of wild animals (wolves), which is lacking even in feature films, including Anatoly Buslov («I Remember»), which looks somewhat schematic, and the reproduction of mental states is paid less attention to and his condition is explained by the other characters. According to the futuristic concept of filmmaker Eliz Haasen in the movie «Prayer», on the contrary, heroes reproduce purely existential states through movements, emotions, dialogues and monologues, black clothes, but for the fullness of feelings and understanding of their states lack the natural world, positive emotions, self-designing heroes in time and space.In the world of nature, which is more safe for the author, he experiences various structural elements of the emotional sphere: not only emotions, boundary emotions, but also stress in conditions of terrible showers, fierce winter, heat, physical injuries, militia hunts and arrests, states of loneliness, fear, horror (the whole spectrum of emotions of this state), as well as pleasant moments of calm, pacification, spiritual pleasure, the Christian church finds it constantly striving to visit, pray and light a candle here, even to spend the night here, to listen to birds and to hear the sounds of nature di, to inspire and feel the spiritual uplift. The traveler makes a prayer in the conditions of the temple and nature at the same time. Most of the heroes of the analyzed artistic or documentary films, as well as the hero of the analyzed essay, are deeply believers, Christians, who faith helps or gives meaning to life.Often, to abstracted and get rid of fear, nesting, radiation, which was another horror of the Zone and an «invisible killer», the narrator was in a state of intoxication, helping to overcome the horror and calm down, reach relaxation, or sleep, for other stackers such the state was narcotic intoxication.The experience of existential states lies not only in the title of sections, as he calls such trips in walks, which, obviously, bring moral satisfaction to the author. The plot of travel – it is also not only familiarity with the land, but also the movement of feelings and existences. In addition to the time of existence, its obscurity, the experience of this state is reflected in the language of the text. The author often uses obscene vocabulary, especially used in the stakers’ circle, to argotheism inherent in this social group, which demonstrates the lack of cultural constraints and which, in their opinion, accurately conveys the feelings of the author.Thus, attention to the existential states, feelings and emotions of a person in the conditions of the largest atomic catastrophe helps the author to attain the philosophical and journalistic sharpening of the text and the call to preserve the Polissya as one of the best corners of Ukrainian nature and culture, makes us think about the future of humanity, model the situation and sharpen the attention on the fact that it is spirituality that leads to such consequences as the Chernobyl accident.