Music and Time Annotation << Back B.V. Asafiev as a «Designer» of the Soviet Musical Art E. Tolkacheva The paper covers B.V. Asafiev's many-sides activity which played a decisive role in the creation of the main components of the phenomenon of Soviet Music. The most important areas of Asafiev’s activity of the 1920s and 30s and the problem of the influence of Asafiev’s works on the formation of Soviet people's musical picture of the world are examined. Asafiev’s ballet «Flames of Paris» is considered to be a model of Soviet Ballet which embodies aesthetic principles of Socialist Realism. Key words: B.V. Asafiev, A.V. Lunacharsky, Soviet music, socialist realism, ballet, Flames of Paris, neoclassicism Contacts: E-mail: ekaterina.tolkacheva@mail.ru Pp. 38-42.