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The article is devoted to the analysis of the metaphorical description of the sacred and profane in the Inna Lisnyanskaya’s poetry. The two cycles of Lisnyanskaya’s poems Jerusalimskaya tetrad’ and W prigorodie Sodoma are the subject matters of this analysis. The author concentrated on the motifs of two different biblical towns - Sodom and Jerusalem. The former destroyed by God, due to the sins committed by its inhabitants, have become synonymous with vices such as adultery. The latter holly city of Judaism is described in this article as a part of sacred space.