The aim of this study is the comprehensive coverage of the features of dystopia in Zamyatin's work. We analyze the novel «We», as an example of dystopia in the writer's work, consider the concept of dystopia, discuss various opinions of critics about the definition of the genre, analyze the novel, touch on the questions put in it to catch the genre features of dystopia. Summing up the work, we are noted the following conclusions: *There is a rather large number of definitions of the concept

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... opia in two directions -definition as a literary genre and as a philosophical idea. *Dystopia developed in the works of some Russian writers but reached the peak of development in Zamyatin's novel.