Real Master Research Articles

The Resurgent Taliban:implications for the Geo-strategic Scenario in South Asia

The seizure of power by the Taliban and its ally, the ill-famed Haqqani Network, directly brought to the fore the face of the real masters of the Taliban - the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). As the newly established Islamic Emirate – which is what the Taliban prefers to call the state of Afghanistan – was taking its first steps, it faced the stubborn resistance from the very same place where the Taliban had failed to establish its control in the past too – the region of Panjshir. At the same time, reports grew abound about the deepening of internal conflicts between the Taliban and Haqqani Network, prompting the ISI chief Lieutenant Gen. Faiz Hameed to fly to Kabul in order to set the house in order. The catastrophic implications of the rise of a narco-terrorist state in India’s neighbourhood can hardly be overlooked. The link between organised crime and narco-terrorism is well established and even countries with the best of intentions and abilities fail to turn the tide, which is fuelled by such an unholy nexus. Afghanistan, where the cash strapped Islamic Emirate is still looking to establish a semblance of order in the country, it neither has the intention nor the ability to disrupt the trade. Therefore, Afghanistan under the Taliban is emerging as a major narco-empire.

Opportunity

As you know, the word ‘crisis’ written in Chinese consists of two hieroglyphs. The first one means danger, the second one means opportunity. Crisis is also a window of opportunity.
 And the present proves it: we can see that even in times of permanent crisis, the urban environment is changing for the better, not only in capitals but also in regional centres (94), as well as in small towns. On New Year’s Eve the results of the 7th edition of the Competition “Comfortable Environment in Small Towns and Historic Settlements” were summed up. Over the five years of its existence, the real masters have matured in this sphere of design. It is especially pleasant to see the results, when quarters, parks, streets of previously forgotten small towns are revived, citizens become more active and, together with designers, find new points of growth.
 Krasnoyarsk’s embankment, which received the Gold Award in its nomination at Zodchesvo in Siberia 22, confirms the best urban traditions developed in recent years in this city thanks to the skills of its architects, and confidently continues Krasnoyarsk’s ambitious movement towards metropolitanism well triggered by the Universiade 2019.
 Digitalization (105-114) is not hindered by crises either. They even accelerate it, which is inevitable. Digitalization is ruling in the regions of Russia, just like over the rest of the world.

Land-use change detection between the master plan and the current state by using GIS and RS the case study of the city Al-Hay

The expansions of cities and continuous urbanization have prepared comprehensive urban plans necessary. The important thing about these plans is to determine their success, efficiency, and feasibility. The expansion of the city comes because of the population increase or investment. When the expansion of cities precedes the updating of its master plans and the development of alternative plans to accommodate these expansions, it is normal that finds irregularities in use and differences between the master plan and real land use. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of illegal changes in the current situation in comparison with master plans. Also, the efficiency of artificial neural network models is evaluated to predict illegal land-use changes. The old master plan (1990-2010) and the new one (2010-2030) was used with two high-resolution satellite images dated 2010 and 2018. To determine changes between the status quo and the uses defined in the master plan, the required information tables were completed by field visit with questioner made for Al-hay City. Neural network models were used to evaluate the survey, data was divided into two parts training and testing then a neural network model was performed on them after testing the results using the neural network model, the results present that the accuracy of about 85% for the old master plan and pass 91% for the updated master plan. The largest percentage of differences between the real use and master plan for the year 2010 was in (Religious use, Parking, Gas stations, then government use, green areas, educational use, and residential), but note that the largest percentage of differences between the real use and master plan for the year 2018 were in (Religious use, Athletic use, Green areas, then commercial and governmental uses).

«Всяк мастер на свой лад»: мастер, мастерство, ремесло в паремиях

The paper examines a thematic group of proverbs and sayings about the master, skill, craft, material, tools, and products of the master in Russian and non-ethnic material. It also involves, for comparison, the material of riddles of a similar subject. The study reveals the main traditional ideas about the master and mastery, similar in various ethno-cultural traditions and relevant to this day: mastery should bring income; any craft is necessary; each person is a master in his own realm; craft requires specialization; mastery is determined by trained students; a real master does not give advice to another, etc. The variants and ethnic versions of the paroemias often highlight specific, often contradictory nuances of these ideas. In the paroemias, we are talking primarily about artisans and people engaged in household works. Mastery is associated primarily with manual labor, less often in the Russian tradition, it relates to creative people. The paroemias confirm the blacksmith's special status in mythology, history and culture. In addition to didactic, informative, prescriptive functions, the analyzed paroemias also perform emotive one. Riddles of similar subjects associate the human with the natural, thereby affirming the natural source of human skill and the skill of Mother Nature herself.

User study of sensorless adaptive haptic assistance for bilateral teleoperation

This paper presents a sensor-less haptic adaptive assistance scheme for bilateral shared controlled in telerobotics. The paper focuses on the implementation of an adaptive assistance scheme previously developed using force sensors at the master’s side, extending it to the case where this measurement is no longer available. The experimental setup was composed of a virtual slave robot and a real master robot (a commercially-of-the-shelf, low-cost haptic device), namely the Novint Falcon haptic device. Due to the lack of sensors to measure the contact force between the human operator and the haptic control device i.e., only the position of the master robot is measured, a data-driven Unknown Input Observer with disturbance estimation augmentation is proposed, allowing the estimation of the (external) human force under plant uncertainty and external disturbances. The proposed approach is tested via a path tracking (known) with (unknown) obstacle avoidance task, and statistical analysis regarding the scheme’s effectiveness is presented.

A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight

While engineers put lots of effort, resources, and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) that fly like insects, insects themselves are the real masters of flight. What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead? Here, we reported a flight control via electrical stimulation of a flight muscle of an insect-computer hybrid robot, which is the interface of a mountable wireless backpack controller and a living beetle. The beetle uses indirect flight muscles to drive wing flapping and three major direct flight muscles (basalar, subalar, and third axilliary (3Ax) muscles) to control the kinematics of the wings for flight maneuver. While turning control was already achieved by stimulating basalar and 3Ax muscles, electrical stimulation of subalar muscles resulted in braking and elevation control in flight. We also demonstrated around 20 degrees of contralateral yaw and roll by stimulating individual subalar muscle. Stimulating both subalar muscles lead to an increase of 20 degrees in pitch and decelerate the flight by 1.5 m/s2 as well as an induce in elevation of 2 m/s2.

The Ecological Consciousness of Natural Writing in British and American Romantic Literature.

The ecological crisis made the British and American ecological literature develop rapidly in the 20th century ecological thought. As a unique literary style that expresses the relationship between nature and man, British and American ecological literature has a far-reaching romantic tradition, and returning to nature is its eternal theme and dream. The study of the romantic tradition of British and American ecological literature has important implications for the development of ecological literature and ecological criticism. British and American romantic writers wrote their own ecological consciousness from three aspects: natural aesthetic and spiritual significance, simple ecological environmental protection consciousness, and life community. They reveal the true meaning of beauty in nature, interpret the beauty of harmony in harmony with nature, advocate returning to nature and the beautiful nature of human beings, and open up a natural path leading to truth, goodness, and beauty for people to pursue their spiritual home. In addition, they also expressed their deep concern for natural resources and the natural environment and called on people to respect life and protect and rationally use natural resources. It highlights that people are not the real masters of the nature, but as an inseparable member of the nature, they form an equal community of destiny with other creatures in the world. The value of British and American romantic literature lies in revealing the deep relationship and mutual influence between human beings and nature and prompting people to comprehend the importance of protecting the ecological environment and living in harmony with nature.

Vendor Master Data Cleaning—A Project for Accounting Class

ABSTRACTWe present a data cleaning project that utilizes real vendor master data of a large public university in the United States. Our main objective when developing this case was to identify the areas where students need guidance in order to apply a problem-solving approach to the project. This includes initial analysis of the data and the task at hand, planning for cleaning and testing activities, executing this plan, and communicating the results in a written report. We provide a dataset with 29K records of vendor master data and a subset of the same data with 800 records. The assignment has two parts—the planning and the actual cleaning, each with its own deliverable. It can be used in many different courses and completed with almost any data analytics software. We provide suggested solutions and detailed solution notes for Excel and for Alteryx Designer.

실재의 윤리와 윤리적 스승 - 소크라테스의 히브리스를 중심으로 -

실재의 윤리와 윤리적 스승 - 소크라테스의 히브리스를 중심으로 -

Оказіональні мовленнєві образи в поезіях Василя Голобородька

The article «Occasional speech images in Vasyl Holoborodko’s poems» analyzes the use of individual author's neologisms in the works of the Luhansk writer. It is noted that modern linguistics has collected a significant number of theoretical and practical studios that present the issues of creating opportunities in various aspects – lexical-semantic, word-forming, stylistic, and so on. It is noted that the study of authors’ individual speech is updated today and is due to the fact that speech creativity does not only indicate a specific manner or reproduce the language picture of the individual’s world, but also allows us to assess the artist’s contribution to the system of codes that are already functioning. The material is taken from the collections of poems «We go», «Seeder» by Vasyl Holoborodko. It illustrates and finds out that ocсasionalisms in the author's works acquire a special function. They help to convey the mood of the lyrical hero. Ocсasionalisms are considered as means of expressive influence on the reader, actualized in the linguistics of the Luhansk writer. Analysis of the Vasyl Holoborodkoєі works showed that real masters of the word can not do without individual author's word formation. After all, the author’s innovations in modern poetic speech occupy a prominent place, and without a comprehensive study of them, it is impossible to talk about innovation in poetry in general. The word-forming process is continuous. Each word is organically motivated in the text, the stylistic expressiveness of which is enhanced by this.

Transformation Measures on the Phenomenon of “Marginal Man” in Primary School Classroom Teaching

“Marginal man” in classroom teaching activities is a special group which doesn’t be accepted by teachers and other students meanwhile has a poor development on physical and mental health because of various reasons away from teaching activities. Curriculum revolution requires teaching staff should pay more attention to “marginal man” in class and think highly of their development. Therefore the class will be vitalized positively. Starting with the following three aspects, teacher, student and family, they will feel the education of love and become the real master of class gradually.

ДИРИГЕНТСЬКА ШКОЛА МИКОЛИ МАЛЬКО У НАУКОВОМУ ПРОСТОРІ

The article covers the conducting school of Mykola Andriiovych Malko in the scientific space. It is revealed that M. A. Malko’s artistic way is an example of universalism of creative personality, individual originality and unique expressiveness of each real master. The wide range of his artistic activity is analyzed, in terms of identifying various vectors of the artist's work:performance, scientific principles and pedagogical guidelines, musical and public initiatives. Based on the analysis of the scientific works of the outstanding artist, the opportunity for the importance of mastering the knowledge, skills and abilities of conducting art is provided. The importance of the rehearsal process in the subject of«Conducting» is revealed ,because a great responsibility falls on the shoulders of the future specialist who decided to become a conductor, to dedicate himself to the conducting profession, as well as his teacher,who has the duty to educate future highly professional conductor. It has been determined that taking a conducting course at an educational institution does not mean that the future conductor has already become a professional. He only gets the basics of conducting technique, which will need to be further developed and improved in the process of painstaking creative work with the team. It was found that one of the most important tasks of the educational process in the subject of «Conducting» is the development of a highly moral personality. Thus, M. A. Malko’s scientific and methodological works outline a range of issues related to the problems of conducting, form the professional skills of future conductors, promotes intellectual development, cultivates love for the profession. M. A. Malko’s conducting and pedagogical activity at different stages of his life is covered. M. A. Malko’s artistic and creative activity is recognized as a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian culture’s conducting art.

<i>Mir Bozhiy</i> magazine and Russian culture in the late 19th – early 20th century

Mir Bozhiy (God’s World) magazine is justly attributed to the lead periodicals of the p lutionary Russia. It came out in 1892-1906. During that relatively short period, it managed to win well-deserved respect and popularity among its readers. The circulation of 18 thousand issues in its best years is a perfect proof. No other classical fat magazine had such a wide circulation. At first, Mir Bozhiy was considered a specialized edition for young audience. That was the reason for its religious name referring at a young soul exploring the world of the God. However, very soon it turned into a magazine for wider public and readers of different ages. Already one year after it was first published, its cover had the subtitle complimented with a note «for self-education». Mir Bozhiy became a magazine for family reading replacing books, schoolbooks and encyclopaedias.Its readers had all reasons to love the magazine. Published works of literature — poems, stories, and novels stood out with their high literary level; and scientific reviews represented thorough analytical studies that contained brave and original conclusion. Contributors of the content included the authors who made Russian poetry and literature shine such as Dmitriy Merezhkovskiy, Ivan Bunin, Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak, Alexander Kuprin and others.Exceptional articles came out from the philosophers Sergey Bulgakov, Nikolay Berdyayev, the economist Mikhail Tuhan-Baranovskiy, publishers Pavel Milyukov and Nikolay Iordanskiy, historian Vasily Klyuchevskiy. Articles about music and arts were also frequent in the magazine.Remarkable publications of the magazine became possible thanks to the high professionalism of its staff members who had literary talents and deep scientific knowledge. One of them, Angel Bogdanovich, was not only an outstanding editor but also an excellent publisher. The real masters of literary translation were Lidia Tuhan-Baranovskaya and Maria Kuprina-Iordanskaya, her first husband was the writer Alexander Kuprin, the head of the magazine’s fiction department. Finally, the magazine’s chief editor Fyodor Batyushkov who was the descendant of the famous Russian poet significantly contributed to the success of the magazine.Though, in 1906 due to the political situation, the «harmful magazine» as considered by the censors was closed, publications of the Mir Bozhiy continued influencing the development of Russian literature, science and culture for a long time.

ВИТОКИ НАСНАГИ ТА ТВОРЧИХ ЗВЕРШЕНЬ ЗНАНОГО МАЙСТРА БАЯННО-АКОРДЕОННОГО МИСТЕЦТВА

У статті розкривається творчий та педагогічний потенціал видатного педагога, професора кафедри народних інструментів Донецької консерваторії, засновника донецької баянно-акордеонної школи, фундатора кафедри народних інструментів цієї консерваторії, який взяв активну участь у її становленні та формуванні, «Відмінника освіти» В.М. Протопопова.Наголошується на унікальності його постаті, яка в період сьогодення належить до несправедливо забутих, попри неоціненний вклад, як у сценічний розвиток інструментів (баян-акордеон), так і в базу методичних розробок викладання гри на цих інструментах. Серед випускників педагога чимало відомих у культурно-музичному світі людей, про яких ми можемо знайти набагато більше інформації, ніж безпосередньо про їхнього вчителя та наставника. Автором статті було виконано низку завдань для розкриття багатогранності і неповторності особистості великого майстра баянно-акордеонного мистецтва – Віктора Миколайовича. На основі історичних матеріалів, спогадів учнів та друзів про культурне надбання, методичних праць та результатів педагогічної діяльності висвітлено цю видатну постать як знаного майстра баянно-акордеонного мистецтва.Уроки Віктора Протопопова були справжніми майстер-класами для всіх, хто був присутній в аудиторії та бажав вслухатись у кожне слово педагога, отримати поради цього майстра, що були цінними для всіх студентів консерваторії. Віктор Миколайович був для своїх студентів викладачем, майстром, наставником і просто хорошим другом. Паралельно з педагогічною діяльністю В. Протопопов здвйснював активну виконавську діяльність у багатьох ансамблях, був учасником колективів (ансамблі та оркестри народних інструментів) та безпосередньо їх керівником.Як виконавець цей видатний музикант володів професійною технікою, виявляв особливу схильність до ансамблевого виконання. У його концертних програмах завжди були твори різних епох та стилів, він мав багато записів на обласному радіо та телебаченні.В.М. Протопопов проводив активну науково-методичну роботу. Він написав понад 90 навчально-методичних і творчих робіт (біля 50 друкованих аркушів, багато з яких надруковані). Серед них: перекладення музичних творів для ансамблів баяністів, концертні обробки народних мелодій, оригінальні п’єси для баяна-акордеона. Його науково-методичні роботи відрізняються сучасними поглядами з методики гри на баяні-акордеоні. В.М. Протопопов надавав методичну допомогу викладачам музичних шкіл, училищ, читав доповіді з проблем удосконалення методики навчання гри на баяні-акордеоні слухачам курсів підвищення кваліфікації. Неодноразово був запрошений головою Державної екзаменаційної комісії в музичні училища та училища культури міст Дзержинськ, Дніпропетровськ, Донецьк.

Application of deep learning and target visual detection in english vocabulary online teaching

The corpus software has many functions, such as keyword retrieval, context co-occurrence, word list generation and word frequency statistics. It can quickly and accurately provide various corpus and information, such as word-formation collocation, context, word frequency and so on. In this paper, the author analyzes the application of deep learning and target visual detection in English vocabulary online teaching. Deep learning is a kind of machine learning algorithm which includes multi-layer non-linear mapping and tries to obtain high-level abstract representation of data. By extracting features from information, the identifiable components in the image can be extracted. The results show that the application of corpus in College English vocabulary teaching can promote students’autonomous use of corpus in English vocabulary learning. The simulation experiment improves the performance of the system by choosing parameters, and the classification accuracy is more than 90%. Corpus can enable students to learn real and natural language and master natural collocation. At the same time, corpus can help students understand the semantic and pragmatic norms of words in communication and recognize the characteristics of register variants. Future research can use Map-reduce technology to accelerate the training process, save training time and test more hyperparameters.

CƏFƏR CABBARLI DRAMLARININ DİLİNDƏ TİPİN FƏRDİLƏŞDİRİLMƏSİNDƏ İŞLƏDİLƏN BƏZİ DİL VASİTƏLƏRİ

Artistic means used for individualization of a type in the language of J.Jabbarli’s dramas The article deals with the outstanding Azerbaijani playwright Jafar Jabbarli’s (1899-1934) dramas that take special place in Azerbaijani literature. His creation includes verses, dramas, prose, translation, film scripts, literary criticism. Though his creative way wasn’t long it covers the historical period full of important social-political events that required creative persons to be sensitive. Any creator must determine own platform and remain unaffected by vague time. The people’s interest and wishes were above all for J.Jabbarli whose literary taste was formed on the basis of the people’s spirit, on the legacy and traditions of such literary luminaries as M.F.Akhundov, M.A. Sabir. Knowing perfectly the literary Russian language imbued with realistic, democratic spirit J.Jabbarli was also well aware of Russian literature. It is noted in the article that J.Jabbarli attached great importance to the language, style, genre, artistic means in his works. The heroes of his plays being romantic, realistic, historical persons are typed by expressive means and differ from one another. So both main and episodic characters of his plays are quite different. It is also emphasized that J.Jabbarli as a real master knew the words with all their nuances perfectly and created the gallery of characters in his dramas. The language plays an important role in typization in his significant dramas. Sometimes J.Jabbarli uses unpleasant words, phrases, for example vulgar words, barbarisms, that have revelatory character.They are used by the writer in order to reveal the type, character. Vulgarity in the sense of vulgar speech can refer to language which is offensive or absence, synonymous with the general meaning of profanity. J.Jabbarli uses them in order to show character’s ignorance, impoliteness, ill-breeding, rudeness, immorality. The writer blames the created characters who don’t know their mother tongue and speak the other language using barbarisms. Thus the writer expresses his indignation and contempt. Barbarism in the characters’ speech is a method used by J.Jabbarli for individualization of a type. This method is reflected in monologues, dialogues, polylogues, replies demonstrating the characters’ psychology and world outlook. The type’s speech represents his/her nature in the dramas. J.Jabbarli attaching great important to any character’s speech, manners creates the original gallery of the different types. All such facts and words are analyzed on the basis of the concrete examples in the article.

Research on Coupling Degree Model of Safety Risk System for Tunnel Construction in Subway Shield Zone

Due to the complexity of construction technology and the seriousness of the safety situation in subway tunnels, it is urgent to find a risk‐control method to monitor and evaluate the construction safety risk system of the subway shield tunnel and to avoid the occurrence of safety risk accidents. Based on the fuzzy entropy theory, this paper establishes a comprehensive index system for the construction safety risk system of shield tunnels. Also, in order to quantitatively analyze the coupling degree among various factors in the safety risk system, the calculation model of coupling degree is established based on the theory of coupling degree in physics. Taking Tianjin subway project as an example, the coupling degree of its safety risk system is calculated. The result shows that the coupling degree of the safety risk system is 0.6997, which indicates that the whole safety risk system is in high‐risk coupling level. Due to the system in an unbalanced development stage, the coupling movement between various factors has a great destructive effect on the construction safety risk system of the subway shield tunnel. This model can not only identify the main risk factors affecting the safety risk system but also monitor the coupling status of the safety risk system in real time and master its development stage. By controlling the main risk factors affecting the safety risk system, the coupling degree of the safety risk system and the probability of the safety risk accident occurrence can be reduced.

The Individual Creditor’s Right to Hold a Corporate Shareholder Liable for an Insolvent Company’s Obligations Outside Bankruptcy Proceedings: The Lithuanian View

Lively discussions on civil liability of companies’ directors towards the creditors of financially distressed companies have been going on for decades. Recent trends in Lithuanian case law, however, show that, in parallel, creditors of private limited liability companies have also shifted their focus to other real masters of business—controlling shareholders—by, rather aggressively, enforcing shareholders’ liability for obligations of insolvent companies. Since recovery rates of unsecured creditors in insolvent liquidations are rather modest, creditors seek to by-pass collective bankruptcy proceedings and bring actions against the abusive shareholder exclusively for their own benefit outside bankruptcy proceedings. Based on comparative examples, the article aims to analyse and evaluate the Lithuanian legal framework by addressing the standing of an individual creditor to hold an abusive corporate shareholder liable for an insolvent company’s obligations from the perspective of competing damage claims between an individual creditor and a bankruptcy administrator. The analysis includes both ordinary and fraudulent bankruptcies.

Mixing and switching of speech codes of Ukrainian emigration (on the example of memoirs and epistolary works by Ulas Samchuk)

The problem of switching and mixing codes is extremely relevant in foreign and domestic linguistic science over the past decades. In this case, if code-switching is understood by all researchers more or less equally (switching from one language to another within a single text – dialog or monologue), then by mixing the code (code-mixing), the case looks much more complicated. The term «mixing of codes» is understood by different researchers in fundamentally different ways: from the introduction into one language of the elements of another language in almost unlimited quantities and in the unadapted (phonetically and grammatically) form before switching codes within the same sentence, that is, the kind of switching codes (the second approach thus postulates the process of speaking in two languages and removes the fundamental difference between switching codes and mixing codes). The study of the mixing of speech codes is an interesting and promising branch of research on the theory of language contacts. Among the fundamental works on this subject should be the study of P. Muysken (Muysken, 2000), where he provides a detailed typology of situations of mixing language codes. In linguistic research, there is a widespread practice of using «mixing codes» and «switching codes» as interchangeable, as well as a series of studies where the term «mixing codes» is used to describe and switch codes and massive borrowings. While the term «switching codes» emphasizes the transition of bilingual from one grammatical system to another, the term «mixing codes» implies the presence of hybrid forms associated with both grammars. In other words, mixing codes emphasizes the formal aspects of linguistic structures or linguistic competence, while code switching emphasizes linguistic performance. The psycho-linguistic direction concerning the study of the switching of speech codes among the bilingual environment explains which aspects of the linguistic competence of bilinguals allow them to modify the codes. Often, the choice of a foreign language involves a waiver of the synonymous form in the language of the successor of the language, thus opposed to an alternative way of expressing communicative intentions in a foreign language. The purpose of our scientific studio is to present function the mixing and switching codes on the materials of the memoirs («Planet DP») and the epistolary works of Ukrainian writers-emigrants in Canada, in particular, by Ulas O. Samchuk with his colleagues, publishers, etc. The main methods of research used were: the method of comparative analysis, which allows to detect English-language infusions as units of English, which determine the national-cultural specificity of the English language; the method of component analysis, which allowed to reveal the semantic interrelations of British realities; descriptive method and method of content analysis. In the course of the study, we came to the conclusion that the addressee and addressees, real masters of the artistic word, almost do not allow the English language to be spoken in Ukrainian, or such spraying is deliberately used and is a means of language play.

IN VIA VERITAS. IRINA BOGATYREVA

In this review of the novels and stories by the contemporary Russian author I. Bogatyreva, winner of numerous literary awards, including The Student Booker 2016, the critic highlights the principal motifs of her plots, including the motif of travel, pilgrimage, and the search of a certain human common ground: be it age, philosophy, or nationality. The paper also examines the chronotope and the writer’s use of mythological allusions, which permeate both her historical and modern day-based novels, only to conclude that ‘emerging adulthood’, a term from the psychological studies of young adults, is the most apt way to describe Bogatyreva’s prose. That the writer maintains keen interest in the subject is not only because of her role as ‘a real master of innovation in young Russian prose’ (quoted from the blurb on the cover of her prize-winning novel Kadyn), but due to its relevance for contemporary young adult readers, themselves in search of their models growing up and their future destiny.