There is an attempt to analyze the cultural codes of the city and country space within the framework of the linguistic picture of the world of the Russian people in this research. The interaction of the modern resident of the capital with the surrounding urban environment and the structure of this interaction seems to be an actual, but almost undeveloped topic, in connection with which the novel "Text", published in 2017 and describing the events of the second decade of the 21st century, was selected for analysis. Description of urban landscapes, elements of space in their relationship with the heroes of the novel reflect and interpret the realities of modern culture, creating a certain code system. Deciphering cultural codes and restoring the associated cultural contexts seems to be the most urgent task of linguoculturology. Using the method of continuous sampling, language units containing cultural codes were identified from the text, their semantics and functions were identified in the context of the novel, and their linguocultural significance in the formation of the reader's worldview and attitude to the linguistic picture of the world as a whole.