Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M. E. Evsevev, Saransk, Russian Federation, [email protected] ABSTRACT Introduction: the article presents the results of research of a complex syntactic whole (CSW) as a main unit of text. The relevance of the theme is determined by the fact, that a CSW is still insufficiently studied in Finno-Ugric linguistics. The subject of the research is one of its types – a CSW with a dynamic beginning. Objective: to determine the specifics and ways of verbalization of a CSW with a dynamic beginning in an art text. Research materials: the artistic texts of modern Mordovian writers. Results and novelty of the research: as a result of the study we presented the classification of CSW types; identified a CSW with static and dynamic beginnings. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time it presents deployed analysis of a CSW with a dynamic beginning, and identifies its varieties. The main attention is paid to the description of ways of their verbalization. It is noted that the authors of artistic texts create different types of a CSW with dynamic beginnings. Their theme and structure determines a beginning playing a role of an organizing center. Key words: complex syntactic whole, typology, beginning, dynamic, variety verbalization, Acknowledgments: the article was prepared in the frameworks of scientific projects of partner universities in network interaction (South Ural State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University and Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute) on the topic «Verbalization of the linguo-emotional picture of the world in artistic text». For citation: Vodyasova L. P. A complex syntactic whole with a dynamic beginning, its varieties and ways of their verbalization in art texts // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (2): 207–215.