Music and Time Annotation << Back Peculiarities of the Poetic Text of Ali Shogentsukov in the First National Opera «Kyzburun» (to the 120th Birthday Anniversary) Yu.M. Thagazitov Ethnocentric tendencies of recent decades, it seems, indirectly make one realize the need for a weighty word of literary classics in the formation of the genre of national opera. And in this sense, Ali Shogentsukov’s work is not only the history of the formation of national literature and an attempt to create the first national opera «Kyzburun», but also a lively participation in the modern literary and art history process and in the development of their genre systems. That is why the purpose of this work is reasoning (comprehension – rethinking) about the nature and specifics of the work «Kyzburun». Keywords: the first national opera «Kyzburun», poem, North Caucasian literature, A.N. Shogentsukov. Pp. 46-48.