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Inna Lisnyanskaya is one of the most popular contemporary Russian poetesses. She was born in Baku in 1928. In 1960 she moved to Russia and got married to a translator and poet Siemion Lipkin. Her works tough upon many problems such as: abandonment, loneliness, longing for her homeland, unfulfilled love. The main objective of the article is to explore ontological, cognitive and structural metaphors and symbols connected with the image of shadow.