The text of E.A. Buketov’s story six letters to a friend as an object of linguoculturological analysis

Abstract

Our history is but a few flashes in the steppe,” said the well-known poet Olzhas Suleimenov. Indeed, travelling through the steppes of Sary-Arka, one begins to understand that the space, traced by a line of low hills and strewn in some places with huge boulders polished by the waters of what was once the world ocean covering these places, is Eternity! Man has brought to these places his own dimension — Time — adding to the music of the Wind, the gentle whisper of grass, his own distinctive feature, his wealth — Language. Artefacts, carefully and painstakingly extracted from the earth in these places after several millennia, tell us of cities where life once flowed in measured harmony with nature.