Heroic legend - a work of modern Khakas literature (based on the poem Khan Tonis on a grey horse by M. R. Bainov)
The author of the paper for the first time analyses one of the topmost and latest large genre works of M. R. Bainov (1937-2001), a Khakas poet - the heroic legend Khan Tonis on a grey horse. The poem became accessible to the general reader after full literary translation into Russian by poetess N. Akhpasheva (2007). The analysis proves the greatest merit of the poet consisting in the fact that the creation of a heroic poem allowed Khakas oral folk epos be included for the first time in written poetry. The author of the translation was a continuer of the translation tradition of alyptykh nymakhs.