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In the article two ways of representation of prison subculture of the Soviet period are analyzed: the rhetoric of the official power presented in periodicals, and the images of the prison world created in two Soviet films — “Gentelmeny udachi” and “Kalina krasnaya”. Film materials are considered as film texts in which systems of the cultural codes making value and symbolical systems of culture are allocated. The analysis of cultural codes of mythicization of prison subculture in the Soviet culture is recreated.