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... in verbal data — topographic names. The author bases the research upon the ideas of the cultural-semiotic approach to city studies, upon the conception of a city as a text and palimpsest and sets the goal of investigat­ing semantic changes in the toponymic text of Ekaterinburg examined in its historical dynam­ics. The main stages of modification of the Ural city toponymic image are characterized via the metaconcept of chronotopos. As a tool of linguocultural analysis per se, generalised onomasio­logical,...

The features of toponymy in the Smolensk-Belarusian borderland are examined based on microtoponyms and unofficial toponyms in the Rudnya district of the Smolensk region. The material obtained through a survey of local residents is analyzed from various perspectives using selected classifications (based on nomination objects, lexical-semantic classes, structu­ral ...

The author considers a lengthy program of research (that will be continued in a series of articles) on the artistic geography (geopoetics) of Alexander Galich, one of the brightest representatives of the author’s (bard’s) song of the 1960s—1970s. The construction of Galich poetic world actualizes the opposition of the center / periphery, while Moscow (or another capital replacing it) acts as the frequency expression of the structural center, and the periphery can be represented as a) the Russian...

... ideological and aesthetic function and at the same time endow the novel with additional deep meanings that contribute to a more holistic perception of artistic reality. S. Snegov, science fiction, “People as Gods”, onomastics, artistic space, toponyms, abionyms 75-84 10.5922/pikbfu-2023-2-7

... USSR dated January 9, 1957]. Available at: http://www.libussr.ru/doc_ussr/ussr_5161.htm [Accessed 27 Octo­ber 2022] (in Russ.). Pospelov, E. M., 2001. Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira: Toponimicheskii slovar’ [Geo­graphical names of the world: Toponymic dictionary]. Moscow (in Russ.). Potto, V. A., 2014. Kavkazskaya voina v otdel'nykh ocherkakh, epizodakh, legendakh i bio ­ gra ­ fiyakh. Tom 1. Ot drevneishikh vremen do Ermolova [Caucasian war in separate essays, episodes, legends and biographies....

The article addresses the challenges associated with standardizing and unifying the spel­ling of toponyms in Kazakhstan. The authors conduct an analysis of the linguistic varia­bility of toponyms, exploring methods for their transcription into Kazakh, Russian, and Eng­lish languages. The study's findings reveal that a majority of the country's ...

... Yu­zhnogo Federal'nogo universiteta. Filologicheskie nauki [Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philolo­gy], 1, pp. 83—90, https://doi.org/10.23683/1995-0640-2019-1-83-90 (in Russ.). Agapkina, T. A., Berezovich, E. L. and Surikova, O. D., 2018a. Toponyms in the charms of the Russian North. I: seas and rivers. Voprosy onomastiki [Problems of ono­mastics], 15 (1), pp. 65—114, https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.1.004 (in Russ.). Agapkina, T. A., Berezovich, E. L. and Surikova, O. D.,...

... conflicts and re-significations. The authors trace how in the Armenian capital throughout the 20 th and 21 st centuries there was a deliberate displacement of some signs by others — from the demolition of religious and Soviet architectural objects to toponymic transformations. Analyzing examples of street renaming, the authors reveal how ideological strategies are manifested both in state initiatives and in local commercial names. Particular attention is paid to protest movements (from 1988 to 2022),...