Chronotopos is identified as one of the key literary categories, the study of which is significant both in the analysis of the work of an individual author and in the analysis of works of a certain era. The article analyzes the features of the functioning of the temporal and spatial characteristics of the works of Fanis Yarullin, the Tatar writer. Based on the writer's short stories and novels, the author of the article reveals the functions of such locus as a house, shop, hospital, police station, garage (basement) and such toposes as a village, water body (lake, river), road, forest, cottage. If using the example of some locus, the author of the article draws a conclusion about their functional constancy (road, lake), then the positive or negative semantics of others (locus - house) is shown in full dependence on the person, the characters of the work.