Komi fairy tales about the heroes of the Russian epos in the Udora story teller Ivan Igushev’s art

This article is dedicated to the art of the Udora storyteller of Ivan Igushev. On basis of textual analysis of four Igushev’s tales about heroes of Russian epos the author educes texts dependent on the book, defines the character and the extent of this dependence, and specifies the direct source of these variants as far as possible.