The article analyses the space of Kursk reflected in E. Nosov’s creative works. His prose, based on facts of his personal life, has autobiographical basis. Therefore, his birthplace takes special place in his works. The space of the house and the space of the city form the writer’s space of Kursk in his artistic model of the world. In Nosov’s Kursk space it is easy to single out a number of spatial toposes: characters’ personal space – house – city. They are not in opposition to each other. The closed space of the house is included in the organic space of the city. The space of the city adds a new attitude to the space of the house and the space of the person. The author managed to examine the phenomenon analyzed from different points of view.

space of house, the topos of the city, spatial oppositions, artistic model