The section discusses up-to-date issues concerning philological research on the Russian literature in early 20th century. It welcomes reports on the literary history, poetics, topography, textology, biographics and other aspects of the text of 1990-40s. Primarily focused on little discussed issues of literary process. Not accepted the synopsis; descriptive reports (unless not focused on novel material); reports with not clearly defined subject matter; reports on narrow issues (especially, based on broadly discussed scholars and authors), unless not associated with literary process in more general prospective. Presumably, all reports should contribute to revealing some of the regularities in literary process, in particular, and historic-cultural process, in more general terms, which set a chronological framework of the section, namely the first half of the century is regarded as a whole, historically and culturally, rather than as a set of opposed ideologies. Due to philological approach to research, philosophical, theological, political and other reports of non-philological kind are not accepted. There may be arranged sub-sections with a focus on specific philological issues, especially as far as anniversaries are concerned. The section will be held during 2 days at the most. Consequently, as the Russian literature of the 20th century is a source of fascination to a wide audience of scholars, the reports will be evaluated by selection process according to the strict selection criteria mentioned above.  Hopefully, our colleagues will understand us in this endeavour. Presumably, proceedings of the section will be published at the end of the conference given the inclination and financial and technical support.