Abstract: The subject of research is the poetic creativity of blockade children. The purpose of the work: setting the problem of studying the cultural code of a huge layer of the poetic heritage of children-blockades evacuated to the Omsk region. The methodology of research consists in the use of a problem-semantic approach to the analysis of poetic creativity. The results of the work: significant factors of perception, a system for encoding moral and patriotic meaning poetic images of war and rear through a figurative picture of historical memory, moral and patriotic meaning of images of war and rear. The field of application of the results: the field of patriotic education in extracurricular and extracurricular work of secondary and higher educational institutions. The novelty of the study lies in a new formulation of the problem of poetic reflection and reflection of war in children's and adult poetic perception. New is also the methodology for analyzing impressions and experiences concentrated in the totality of ideas of children-blockade, aimed at identifying moral and patriotic meanings and dichotomy of images of war and rear. An extraordinary methodology of a problem-semantic approach to the analysis of poetic creativity. Conclusions: 1. The figurative picture of the war, created by the children's blockade in adult and children's poetry, expresses the wartime cultural code, which is to strive to protect their homeland, to accomplish a feat in the name of life, in which the moral and patriotic features of genuine heroism are concentrated. 2. At the same time, the cultural code of the figurative picture of the rear and military childhood of blockade children was manifested in a number of noble qualities of Siberian saviors. 3. At the same time, the decoding of the moral and patriotic meaning of the figurative picture of historical memory created by the blockade children includes the transition from figurative signs of memory, a culture of love for the Motherland, enclosed in figurative clichés to symbols of struggle, images of selflessness, archetypes of heroism, exploits to universal human values, expressed in identical poetic means.