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The article discusses the correspondence of A.N. Tolstoy within the value context of the whole scope of the war journalism. In a complex worldview process, several semantic centres are distinguished: goals — values — ideals, this triad is called the ‛core of the axiosphere’. The main high goal of the era is defeating the enemy. To achieve it, it is necessary to understand the importance of a value single for all — common home, a large country in need of protection. Future victory becomes the most important ideal. Revealing the axiological centre of journalism at the initial stage of the war illustrates its specificity, conditioned by the task of the time — to mobilize people for war. Literature devoted to the Great Patriotic War was interpreted mainly in a thematic way, although many noted special spiritual atmosphere of the war era, which interrupted the previous lifestyle. Therefore, the question of considering the most, perhaps, ideologized topic in previous years — the war journalism in a value context is so acute. Awakening a sense of patriotism in a person is impossible without awareness of homeland. He is characterized by love for a small homeland, but in the tragic period of the war, knowledge of the big homeland and a feeling of love for it are necessary, in the articles written in the first days of the war, the history of the country was visualized and a geographical image of the homeland was created. The history of the country appeared before the eyes of contemporaries in vivid images, was saturated with specific feats and deeds of ancestors, so the connection of times was established. A person was imbued with respect for their achievements, building himself into the gallery of the Fatherland’s ascetics, realizing the need for personal participation in its history.