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The investigation is devoted to studying of national-cultural area of the Finnish and Russian languages, the area of concepts and forms of its expression, that define the specifics of national consciousness of lingvo-cultural community. It compares national ways of seeing of the world that are fixed in a linguistic picture of representatives of two different ethnic groups. It also identifies common and different features in the Finnish and Russian systems of color terms. The subject of the research work are lexical items that form the "color" picture of the world, contexts of their manifestations, observations on the etymology of the “color” word, in other words, whenever it is possible, the investigation gives the most complete information about color terms in the language system of the Finnish and Russian languages. The subject of the research are the principles of the organization of color picture of the world in the Finnish and Russian languages. Reconstruction of color images of the world is based on the analysis of cognitive models, correlated with different thematic groups; and on the analysis of prototypes and the area of concepts. The research results affirm the validity of the provisions on the need for a parallel study of the language and culture.