Abstract:
Fairytales are important part of Kazakh mythology alongside «shezhire» which represents different Kazakh
genealogies including legends about origins of tribes and lineages narrated about famous persons of different
lineages. The author tries to do structural analysis of Kazakh fairytales using methodology of V.Y.Propp and
C.Levi-Strauss to do comparative analysis of Kazakh and Russian fairytales. In the present time researches of
the Kazakh mythology are one of the important and priority investigations in Kazakhstani human sciences.
There are published «shezhire» of different Kazakh lineages, which are started to reconstruct but these researches
have spontaneous and mostly have only a descriptive character. The author had done the attempt of
theoretical analysis of Kazakh fairytales, which are the part of Kazakh mythology.
