Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2016 9) 551-558 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81.33 Conceptualization of the Image of Siberia in Contemporary Travel Literature Liubov P. Bolshakova* North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov 58 Belinsky Str., Yakutsk, 677000, Russia Received 14.12.2015, received in revised form 20.01.2016, accepted 03.03.2016 The article offers a study of conceptualization of Siberia in the English language picture of the world. <...> The objects of study are the means of linguistic representation, which provide conceptualization of the image of the Russian North. <...> The concepts were identifi ed through revealing the key words by continuous sampling method and set of categories in the result of analysis of the meanings of linguistic units, which represent the ‘’Siberia’’ concept. <...> Thus, foreign travelers associate the Russian North both with the extreme weather conditions, geographical remoteness, inaccessibility and also with rich, but tragic, violent history, the beauty of the northern nature, sincerity and kindness of the Siberian natives, unusual way of their life and extremely harsh living conditions. <...> The research shows that revealed concepts resulted in the creation of the image of Siberia as a distinguished from every other – as a metaphor for cold and remoteness, embodied in oxymoron of oppression and freedom. <...> Keywords: conceptualization, Siberia, literary image, contemporary travel language picture of the world. <...> Despite defi ned geographic and administrative borders, Siberia is still a relevant subject of dispute for many scientists. <...> In our study Siberia is defi ned as geographically Russian North with its unique fl ora and fauna, a home of distinctive * Corresponding author E-mail address: bolshaklove@yandex.ru # 551 # Liubov P. Bolshakova. <...> Conceptualization of the Image of Siberia in Contemporary Travel Literature peoples with their amazingly rich cultural and community traditions. <...> However, it is obvious that all the sources defi ne the concept as a mental structure semantically fundamental to any idea or phenomenon. <...> There are three approaches to defi ning the term: the concept as a basic unit of culture (Stepanov, Karasik); as a unit of linguistic worldview and a product of national cultural mentality (Arutyunova, Bulygin, Shmelev); as a result of the collision of word meaning with a personal and national human experience, i.e. it is an intermediary between the words and reality (Likhachev, Kubryakova). <...> Thematic justifi cation of the article is based <...>