The collection is devoted to the most significant and earliest branch of the Moscow Semiotic School, grouped around the sector of structural typology of the Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where it was held in 1962. First Symposium on Structural Study of Sign Systems in Russia and the USSR . Currently, there are several specialized bibliographies of works in this field (Germany, the Netherlands, Austria). Dozens of works of participants (in particular - the founders of the school: Vyach . Sun. Ivanova and V. N. Toporova) translated into foreign languages of the West and East . The collection consists of an introductory article (T.) M. Nikolaeva), Applications (with memories and . and . Review and program of the Symposium on Structural Study of Sign Systems) and four sections: I. Simple semiotic systems . II. Reconstruction of the oldest mythopoetic models (reconstruction of the oldest Indo-European mythologists; mythopoetic interpretation of folklore texts) . III. Methods of Semiotic Reconstruction and Folk Texts . IV. Theory and semiotic analysis of author's texts (text theory, analysis and interpretation of prose texts, analysis and interpretation of poetic texts) .