Аннотация:MYTHOLOGICAL MODELS IN THE MEDIA DISCOURSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IN RUSSIAThe article is an attempt to systematize the materials of the Russian media containing mythological motives and dedicated to protecting the life and health of the population in the face of a coronavirus pandemic. The authors analyze publications in search of archetypal mythological constructions and come to the conclusion that being an element of traditional culture myth is actualized during the period of the spread of a fatal disease. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that the modern mass media space is permeated with mythological models, intertext and intertext memes, designed to create conditions for the development of a communicative-discursive space around the value of “health”, broadcast with the help of evaluative means that demonstrate threat and challenge as well as hope and salvation