Time is an abstract category, but it is closely related to human beings. The perception of time may vary depending on the linguistic, social and cultural environment. That is why it is so important to pay special attention to the diversity of the perceptions of time when learning a foreign language. In this article, we explore deictic elements with the meaning of time in the discourse of Russian artistic and publicist magazines. The material of the study were texts published in copies of the «Novy Mir» magazine at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the cognitive approach, text is viewed as a discourse and time is one of the key concepts behind this discourse. As the discourse develops, several deictic centres are formed, and non-temporal words become secondary deictic elements. The results of this study may be used in teaching Russian as a foreign language, in particular in teaching reading at an advanced level of learning Russian as a foreign language, as well as in courses on translation or historical interpretation of text.
