Collages by Sergey Paradzhanov may be characterized as one of the outstanding high points of his creativity, as a model of contemporary visual art practice of the time. It is underlined that collages turned out to be almost only way to experiment during his hard times. Compositional and stylistic features of Sergey Paradzhanov’s collages are revealed, as well as the principles of intertextuality, their assosiative nature, and “recursive reconstruction of elements”. It is pointed that in Paradzhanov’s collages “scantiness” of materials was compensated with the exquisite play with textures and visual interpretations (refined with subject-spatial combinations, sense and visual citations, which formed the basis of Paradzhanov’s“alphabet”). It is emphasized that the most important feature of his collages is forming the “meta-language of the visual” that opens the possibility for a dialogue with the parallel art spaces. Paradzhanov’s use of all possible means of the collage thinking caused him exceeding the limitations of a collage, allowing to synthesize traditional collage techniques with the elements of decollage, assemblage, and ready-made.