Introduction. The article investigates the specifics of cinematic images of the USSR in Russian myth-making practice. The main objective of the study is to analyze the impact of images of the Soviet past, created and broadcast by post-Soviet cinema, on the formation of historical memory about the USSR. Theoretical analysis. The study is based on the hypothesis that cinema is one of the significant aspects of myth-making, which directly participates in the construction of collective representations of the past.
