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The article demonstrates the possibilities and necessity of organizing training and con­solidating resources for the professional preparation of early childhood educators within a learning community corresponding to their field of activity. The results of an empirical study aimed at identifying and compensating for professional deficits of educators in this category under conditions of organized non-formal education are presented. Based on questionnaire data and focused group interviews obtained...

The article examines fairy-tale motifs in the second novel of the Gold sisters trilogy, “The Complete Tales of Merry Gold”, by contemporary American writer Kate Bernheimer. The methodological framework of the study is based on motif and intertextual analysis. The novel contains a complex system of fairy-tale reminiscences. Recurrent plots of fairy-tale pretexts associated with the water element, as well as images of mythological and fairy-tale characters (selkies, “The Water Nixie” from the collection...

... 1999) by the Native American author N. Scott Momaday. It examines the influence of the beliefs of the indigenous peoples of North America on the author’s understanding of such aspects of consciousness and being as religion, lan­gua­ge, time, space, art, and thought. The study highlights features of the Native American world­view, in which the images of God, the human being, and the animal, as well as the con­cept of the soul, have key conceptual significance. It also considers the interaction ...

The article is devoted to the study of manifestations of catastrophic consciousness in the short story. The methodological basis of the research consists of scholarly works in literary studies, as well as in philosophy, sociology, and art studies, which provide definitions, de­scribe the essence of the concepts of “catastrophic consciousness” and “catastrophe,” and pro­pose a typology of catastrophes. A brief overview of works of contemporary English-language literature representing ...

The article examines the categories of metafiction and metanarration, identifies the spe­cific features of translating metafiction, and the main metafictional strategies in D. Kehl­mann’s novel “Fame”, along with the ways of rendering them into Russian and English. The principal metafictional strategies employed by D. Kehlmann include metaleptic narration and the introduction of metafictional and metanarrative commentary. Using contextual and com­parative analysis of selected fragments from the novel...

The article addresses the issue of identifying the structural and semantic characteristics of naval terminology. The aim of the study is to examine objective and subjective methods for determining the degree of correlation between the components of naval binomials. The materi­al for analysis consists of binomial units identified in educational, scientific, and reference literature used in naval higher education institutions, as well as in lecture texts by practition­er instructors. The criteria for...

The Russian philosopher Victor D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov was introduced to Kant’s ideas through the works of his older contemporaries, one of whom was Wilhelm Traugott Krug, the author of the concept of transcendental synthetism. However, the degree and character of the influence of his philosophical ideas on Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s epistemology remain unexplored to this day. To fill this gap I have examine the main features of transcendental synthetism and the basic tenets of Krug’s theory of cognition...

Nikolai Alekseev’s article was written whilst in exile and belongs to the Eurasian period of his philosophical work. It draws on ideas developed in articles from 1926 and 1927, written for the journal “Put’ [The Way]: A Journal of Russian Religious Thought”. Based on the research of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian historians, Alekseev demonstrates how the Russian people’s views on state power and the figure of the ruler took shape. From his perspective, these views uniquely combine...

The later self-assessment of Nikolai N. Alekseev concerning his independence from the philosophical trends of his time led researchers to believe that the philosophical foundations of his worldview were remote from the Neo-Kantian principles of philosophy. And yet, an attentive reading of his philosophical and public writings, as well as the study of archive materials and the origins of his views, warrant the conclusion that he was among the Russian Neo-Kantians, many of whom would subsequently follow...

The later self-assessment of Nikolai N. Alekseev concerning his independence from the philosophical trends of his time led researchers to believe that the philosophical foundations of his worldview were remote from the Neo-Kantian principles of philosophy. And yet, an attentive reading of his philosophical and public writings, as well as the study of archive materials and the origins of his views, warrant the conclusion that he was among the Russian Neo-Kantians, many of whom would subsequently follow...

In this article, I attempt to reconstruct Kant’s enlightenment project, viewed as a complex phenomenon which combines various programmatic principles of all three Critiques, and which offers a special perspective on the perception of modernity. I have chosen, as the lens for my analysis, the interpretation of Michel Foucault, who presents Kant’s project as a phased transition from philosophical critique to political pragmatics. Following the path charted by Foucault, I analyse a number of ideas developed...

... Friede oder der Friede Gottes so wol desselben mit uns als unserer mit und in Gott samt dessen Beförderungsmitteln und hindernüssen. Franckfurt: J. D. Zunner. Spener, P. J., 1694. Der hochwichtige Artikel von der Wiedergeburt, dero Ursachen, Mittel, Art, Pflichten, Würden, Kennzeichen und übrigen dahin gehörigen Materien. Frankfurt: J. D. Zunner. Spener, P. J., 1706. Pia Desideria oder herzliches Verlangen nach Gottgeflliger Besserung der wahren evangelichen Kirchen. Franckfurt am Main: J. D. ...

... Linguistics . Hildesheim; Zürich; N. Y. Stepanov, Yu. S., 1985. V trekhmernom prostranstve yazyka: Semioticheskie problemy lingvistiki, filosofii, iskusstva [In the three-dimensional space of language: Semiotic problems of linguistics, philosophy, art]. Moscow (in Russ.). Weigand, E., 1996. Words and their role in language use. In: E. Weigand and F. Hundsnurscher, eds. Lexical structures and language use: Proceedings of the Interna­tio­nal Conference on lexicology and lexical semantics, Münster,...

Modern urban environments are characterized by high levels of light pollution, which negatively affect the adaptive mechanisms of the human body and cause various disorders and impairments of vital functions. This study focuses on changes in adaptive processes in the bodies of young people exposed to different lighting conditions—natural illumination and complete absence of light. The research employed heart rate variability (HRV) analysis using specialized equipment (Omega-M). The obtained data...

The relevance of the study stems from the need to reduce interregional disparities, as stipulated in strategic planning documents. The article examines the provision of federal highways for key settlement centers in the Northwestern Federal District in the context of forming a sustainable socio-economic system. The methodological framework relies on the comparative geographical method and methods of geoinformation analysis, including the construction of buffer zones. The analysis reveals significant...

The Kaliningrad region, as a Russian exclave located at the center of the Baltic region, has found itself at the epicenter of geopolitical confrontation between the Russian Federation and the collective West. With the launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, confrontation with NATO, the European Union, and regional states has reached its peak. The geographical position of the Kaliningrad region has generated threats of transport and economic blockade, while simultaneously enhancing its...

The study investigates the feedback of faculty members regarding the necessity of using interactive teaching methods, as well as their readiness to transform the most preferred methods employed at the Russian Guard military university. The survey involved 126 faculty members from the Saratov Military Zhukov Red Banner Institute of the National Guard Forces. A sample of specialists (faculty members) teaching various disciplines was formed to obtain a comprehensive view of opinions and analyze teachers’...

The article is devoted to the development and integration of animated educational materials into the curriculum of the course Human Anatomy to enhance students’ comprehension of academic content and improve learning outcomes. During the study, new learning tools were created — animated materials for students of the General Medicine program, covering the section “Veins of the Abdominal Organs” within the working syllabus of the Cardiovascular System. These animated materials were integrated into the...

Jean Anouilh’s play “La Grotte” (“The Basement”) is examined as an example of “theater within theater,” where different levels of fiction overlap: there is no clear separation between the main play and the embedded play, and they intertwine throughout the action. At the center of the analysis is the figure of the Author, who functions simultaneously as a character and narrator, elevated above the other characters. However, his position is unstable, as, being the creator of the embedded play, he cannot...

The article analyzes the final plays from the surviving repertoire of the Neues Schauspielhaus (New Dramatic Theater) in Königsberg, staged in April 1944, four months before the destruction of the city’s historic center due to Anglo-American bombing. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the theater’s dramaturgical repertoire selection during the Nazi era in a frontline city, in the context of its historical fate. The plays of Hermann Sudermann — “Teya,” “Fritzchen,” and “The Last...

... poetry of N. P. Gronsky, a representative of the first wave of the Russian diaspora, drawing on mythopoetic and hermeneutic approaches. It identifies the connection of his works with the concept of Pythagoreanism and the idea, characteristic of world art, of dividing the cosmos into Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis, a concept particularly prevalent in Silver Age lyric poetry. In Gronsky’s lyrics, music is primarily associated with ancient motifs, as well as pagan and Christian ...

This article provides a brief overview of key aspects of discourse studies, addressing the definition and typology of discourse, as well as the difference between the terms “text” and “discourse.” The historical background and contemporary approaches to the study of ecological discourse were examined, and its place within general discourse theory was determined. A qualitative-quantitative content analysis of texts within the media ecological discourse was carried out, using articles from the authoritative...

The article addresses the issue of collective reflection on various manifestations of reality. The aim of the study is to confirm the existence of cultural modality as a linguocultural category. This objective was achieved through the methods of description, componential and pragmatic analysis, and linguocultural interpretation. Using L. N. Tolstoy’s story “Polikushka” as material, the study examines the reactions of representatives of the 19th-century peasant world to different aspects of reality...

The paper examines the concept of translation strategy and aims to develop a typology of its possible forms from the perspective of a needs-tailored approach to translation. It begins with a brief review of positions on translation strategy articulated by Russian and inter­na­tio­nal translation scholars, demonstrating the lack of consensus in the field. The study then subjects the theory of translation strategies developed within the communicative-functional app­roach, conceptually close to the...

In modern Finnic onomastics, the study of the pathways and mechanisms through which foreign borrowings are adapted in closely related languages has gained particular signifi­cance. Drawing on material from the Votic and Ingrian anthroponymic systems, this article examines the phonetic and morphological transformation of personal names of Christian origin. The study aims to identify the typological features of adaptation mechanisms and to distinguish between universal and language-specific characteristics...

This article investigates the phenomenon of cancel culture as a contemporary manifesta­tion of social ostracism and a mechanism of discursive manipulation within English-language media discourse. Particular emphasis is placed on its interrelation with wokeism, which oper­ates as an ideological and axiological framework shaping a system of values centred on equali­ty, inclusivity, and social justice. Cancel culture, in this context, functions as a pragmatic instrument of value enforcement, realised...

This paper delineates the field of realistic discourse and its internal diversity. It develops a conceptual matrix of epic realism and explicates its key features: the individualisation of collective experience; the transposition of the monumentality of the past into the present and the future; and the transformation of monumentality that results in a problematization of the presumed final impeccability of the author and, ultimately, of the hero. The study examines Ernst J?nger’s intellectual novel...

The article examines Osip Mandelstam’s last poem, recorded from the poet’s voice in a transit camp. Two main tasks are pursued: the verification of authorship and the reconst­ruc­tion of the original text. The poem is analysed against the background of the Russian poetic tra­dition and within the context of Mandelstam’s late work. It is argued that the extant re­cord is not a fragment of a lost text, but a complete poem—a one-line epigram. Rhythmic and phonetic analysis brings this poem close to...

The article undertakes a motif-based analysis of the semantic connections between “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus (St. John of Sinai) and the spiritual letters addressed to the lai­ty by St. Ambrose of Optina. St. Ambrose took part in the preparation for the publication of the translation of “The Ladder” into Russian and Church Slavonic, carried out at Optina Pustyn in 1862. Quotations from “The Ladder”, as well as references to the name of St. John Climacus, occur in twenty letters from the corpus...

Based on some of the states of Sergey Zenkin’s article, I describe the relationship between affect and symbol. Affect has two sides — cognitive and non-cognitive. The latter manifests itself in unconscious reactions. Conscious affect is regulated by the communicative situation and the sociocultural environment. Sergey Zenkin describes two systems of meaning circu­la­tion. The first is sign communication, the second is working with features and symbols. Sym­bols can be generated unconsciously and...

The article demonstrates, through a series of examples, that reflection on signs relates to two distinct mental operations: the exchange of sign messages between subjects (com­mu­nication), and the interpretation of signs and sign systems that lack a subjective sender and originate either in natural objects or in the impersonal domain of “culture”. This duality of the object of analysis gives rise to persistent terminological difficulties, which surface in Aris­totle’s treatment of the relationship...

The article analyzes regional memory politics in the Republic of Ingushetia using the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Ingush people and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Ingush statehood as case studies. Employing an actor-oriented approach based on the works of M. Bernhard and J. Kubik, along with discourse analysis, the author examines how various actors shape and promote competing narratives of the past. The study demonstrates that the narrative of the...

The views of representatives of monarchist circles within Russian society toward the last Russian emperor during the years of the First World War are examined. The study concludes that two models of monarchists’ attitudes toward Nicholas II during the specified period can be identified. The apologetic model was based on monarchists’ perception of the emperor’s personal virtues, including his loyalty to duty. Among the prominent apologists of the mon­arch was A. I. Dubrovin, the founder of the All-Russian...

The study examines the instruments for shaping post-Soviet macro-identity in the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia). Macro-identification is defined in a narrow sense as a political technology of civilizational reorientation, involving a break with historical and cul­tural ties to Greater Russia and the formation of new connections with the Western world. The article proposes a theoretical integration of the concepts of macro-political identity (O. Yu. Malinova), hybrid identity, and the...

Using the example of the Kaliningrad Rail-car Manufacturing Plant, the article analyzes personnel policies and the composition of the workforce at industrial enterprises in the USSR during the early postwar period. The objective of the study is to identify key problems and the dynamics of workforce formation amid postwar devastation, a shortage of qualified personnel, and the challenges of reconstructing a new Soviet region. The methodology, based on a com­prehensive analysis of the enterprise’s...

The article analyzes threats to Russia’s national security arising from the development of illicit drug trafficking through the use of digital technologies. The objectives of the study in­clude a comprehensive analysis of contemporary threats to the national security of the Rus­sian Federation caused by the transformation of illicit drug trafficking under the influence of digitalization processes, as well as an assessment of the effectiveness of existing means and methods of countering this type...

The study of the spatial development of territories is one of the pressing tasks of social geography of the XX—XXI centuries. In the era of modern globalization and transformation of the world economy, strengthening of agglomeration effects and concentration of economic forces and population in a small number of centers, the problem of development, recovery and revival of depressed and peripheral territories is of particular importance. The purpose of this article is to conduct a critical analysis...

The increasing recreational needs of modern society have led to the formation and development of recreational nature management. In improving recreational nature management, it is necessary to establish a land-use system that meets not only current but also future needs of society, the state, business, and the population — the natural end users of natural and recreational resources. A new methodological approach is proposed for assessing the nature-recreational potential of a specific territory....

The article examines the features of the spatial organization of student campuses using examples from domestic and international experience. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing role of university campuses as drivers of regional socio-economic development and the formation of the “creative class.” The aim of the work is to identify models of the spatial organization of university campuses, to conduct their comparative analysis, and to assess the prospects for implementing foreign...

The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). Despite significant growth in freight traffic in recent years and its strategic importance in the context of the global transformation of logistics, the INSTC remains inferior to traditional routes and realizes only a small portion of its potential. The development of the corridor is constrained by infrastructure limitations (differences in railway gauge, seasonality of navigation, and low capacity...

The article examines the degree of scholarly development of the problem concerning the influence of the tram network of the city of Königsberg on the spatial development of the urban territory prior to 1945. Based on an analysis of urban studies and transport-related academic publications, including research on other European cities (London, Warsaw, and Bucharest), the key patterns of the integration of tram infrastructure into the system of urban development are identified. The role of tram lines...

According to the generally accepted Stern-Vygotsky paradigm, preverbal infants, while learning words, first learn concepts and names (phonetic complexes) separately. And then, in the second year of life, they associate the learned names with concepts, forming words “name + meaning (concept)”. However, recent studies show that 6-month-old infants already know some common words, such as banana, mouth, and hand, indicating that they understand their referential uses. These and other results indicate...

The article examines the problem of representing the history and culture of Old Believers in the journalistic writings of the recognized classics of anarchist thought—M. A. Bakunin, P. A. Kropotkin and L. N. Tolstoy. It is shown that representatives of the Russian anar­chist movement re­garded Old Believers as a potential support in the struggle against the tsar­ist government. According to the views of the revolutionaries, the mentality of Old Believers shared numerous similarities with the ethics...

The key commemorative practices associated with the name of I. Kant in the Kaliningrad region during the post-Soviet period have been examined in the article. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, due to the growing interest in the pre-war history of the region, there was an expansion of the landscape of “places of memory” related to and associated with Kant. This resulted in the establishment of the philosopher’s image in the cultural memory of the residents of Kaliningrad as a “local” historical figure...

The article examines the system of training academic personnel in the history of the Russian state and law at the law faculties of the Russian Abroad in Harbin and Prague in the 1920—1930s. The main sources include case-related documentation from the archives of Russian institutions (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Archive of the Rostov Region), memoirs, and publications by contemporary emigrant scholars. It is argued that the training system...