This article is devoted to the work of the famous modern Saudi writer Hussein Ali Hussein, as well as the influence of Russian literature on his work. In his stories, Hussein Ali Hussein showed the problem of the "little man", which was also used in the works of famous Russian writers such as A.P. Chekhov, N.V. Gogol.

little man, term, cross-cutting theme, world literary process, new school, new wave.

Al-Hazmi, Mansour. (1994). The Art of the Short Story in Modern Saudi Literature. Fann al-qissa al-qasira fi al-adab as-saudi al-hadith. 73 p (in Arabic)

Chekhov, Anton. (1984). The Man in a Case. Chelovek v futlyare. Vol. 3, Collected Works in 4 Volumes. Moscow: Pravda Publishing House, p. 292. (in Russian)

Dr. Mo'jeb bin Saeed Al-Zahrani (2001) Encyclopedia of Modern Saudi Arabian Literature: Selected Texts and Studies. Dar Al-Mufradat, Riyadh, Vol. IV. The Short Story. - 235p (in Arabiс)

Gogol, Nikolai. (1984), The Overcoat. Shinel. Vol. 3, Collected Works in 8 Volumes. Moscow, p. 133. (in Russian)

Hussein, Ali Hussein. (1978) The Departure. Al-Raḥīl. – Cairo. The Technical Press, p. 60. (in Arabic)

Hussein, Ali Hussein. (1984) The Iron Water Queue. Ṭābūr al-Miyāh al-Ḥadīdiyya. – Cairo: The Technical Press, p. 75. (in Arabic)

Kirpichenko V. N. (1986) Modern Egyptian Prose in the 1960s-1970s. Sovremennaya Egipetskaya proza v 1960g–1970gs. – Moscow: Nauka, p. 15. (in Russian)

Korayem, S. M. A., Shamusarov, S. G., Mutalova, G. S., Begmatova, B. M., & Saidova, N. M. (2024). Calling for the Use of Intermediate Language in Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers, Its Foundations and Problems. Power System Texnology Journal, ISSN, 1000-3673.

Mukhiddinova, D. Z. (2015). The genre of "very short story" in modern Arabic literature / Zhanr "ochen' korotkogo rasskaza" v sovremennoy arabskoy literature // Sociosphere, (3), 57-60.

Mukhiddinova, D., & Saidova, N. (2023). Characteristics of the “Shortest Story” Genre in Modern Arabic Literature. SGS-Engineering & Sciences, 2(02).

Saidova, N.M. (2015). The Formation of New Forms of Fiction in Saudi Arabia. Stanovleniye novih form hudojestvennoy prozi saudovskoy aravii. Ilmiy Khabarnoma. Scientific Bulletin No. 3, Andijan, p. 76. (in Russian)

Saidova, N.M. (2017). The Thematic Range of the Modern Saudi Short Story. Tematicheskiy diapason sovremennogo saudovskogo rasskaza. Republican Scientific-Practical Conference of Young Scientists. Collection of Articles and Abstracts. p. 250. (in Russian)

Saidova, N.M. (2020.) Features of the Poetics of the Saudi Realistic Short Story in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Osobennosti poetiki saudovskogo realisticheskogo rasskaza vo vtoroy polovine XX veka. Oriental Studies. No. 2. - Tashkent, pp. 19-34. (in Russian)

Saidova, N.M. (2021). Features of the Development of the Saudi Realistic Story in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Osobennosti razvitiya saudovskogo realisticheskogo rasskaza vo vtoroy polovine XX veka. International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, Germany, 360-370p. (in English)

Suvorov M. N. (2012). Realism and Modernism in the Literary Works of Arab Countries. Realism i modernism v xudojestvennoy literature arabskix stran // Vestnik of St. Petersburg University, Series 13, Issue 4, Pp. 61–68; (in Russian)