SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES OF THE ARCTIC ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, REFLECTED IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CINEMA

The revival of the Arctic problematic and the return of Russian policy in the Arctic region are reflected in the cultural life of Russian society, in its art and in cinema. Over the past 10 years, a dozen of native Russian films devoted to life of Arctic and Subarctic zones have appeared on the screen. In this article, the authors would like to highlight the most outstanding works of Russian film directors, to give them the comments and to reflect the real situation in the Arctic zone.
This article discusses such iconic and well-known works of modern Russian cinema as "Leviathan" by Andrei Zvyagintsev, "The Postman's White Nights" by Andrei Konchalovsky's, "How I Ended This Summer" by Alexei Popogrebsky, "Sibir. Monamur" by Slava Ross, "The geographer drank his globe away" by Alexander Veledinsky, "The Island" by Pavel Lungin. The catastrophic failures of the Russian political thought over the past 30 years in the Arctic region are shown in these movies in the form of allegorical fiction drama. The main problem of modern Russian society - the institutionalization of corruption – is affected by this work. The other problems like the ambivalence of mysterious Russian soul`s being under the conditions of degradation of Russian northern villages and towns, the complexity of human relationships, the moral and ethical crisis; the impoverishment of the modern Russian society as well as problems of desertisation of territories are discussed in this article.