This work began under favorable circumstances after the release of the ten-volume academic collected works of Lomonosov, made taking into account all the surviving handwritten heritage and equipped with full scientific commentary. The anniversary of Lomonosov in 1961 in connection with the 150th anniversary of his birth made available to researchers a number of generalizing works on the life and work of a brilliant Russian scientist and poet. The Lomonosov problem and Old Russian literature includes several aspects: clarifying the circle of Lomonosov's awareness in the monuments of Old Russian literature, the attitude towards them and the degree of their influence on the formation of ideological and artistic features of his own works. The author considers it expedient to solve the assigned tasks by highlighting several issues that are mutually related by the research issues.