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The article is devoted to the problems of modernization of higher professional education, development of models and forms of conducting final state certification in the direction of "Philology" in bachelor's and master's programs. The basis of certification is the competence approach, which assumes orientation to various spheres of professional activity of graduates-philologists.

By means of an intertextual analysis the article considers color as a semiotic code along with its perception by Turkic and Slavic peoples. The subjects of the study are M. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita and O. Bokeev’s story The Trace of Lightning and its original text in Kazakh.