The concept of cross-cultural communication includes a fairly wide range of interacting components and lies, above all, in the field of intellectual history, which, in recent years, has become one of the key areas in humanities.Turning to intellectual history allows us to overcome the established perceptional stereotypes that view the 1920-30s in the history of both countries as purely confrontational. The session aims to study the mechanisms of humanistic intellectual osmosis formation using literature, journalism and periodicals of this period, thus showing the potential and the limits of Soviet-French mutual influence at that time.