What is good: to the history of evaluative adjectives in the language of the early Soviet period
The article is devoted to the semantic evolution of the evaluative adjectives ‘horoshii’ and ‘plohoi’ (‘good’ and ‘bad’) in the early Soviet language. Through the use of party documents, propaganda slogans, letters to the government and literary texts ...
International Scientific Conference “Kant and Solovyov: Convergences and Divergences”
... conferences on the theme of “Immanuel Kant and Russian Philosophers: Convergences and Divergences.” The first conference, co-organized with the Department of the History of Russian Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, is devoted to the reception and criticism of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant by the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov.
The aim of the gathering is to examine diverse aspects of Solovyov’s philosophical works — epistemological, philosophico-political,...
Animation as a means of teaching human anatomy in medical school
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 ...
Mechanisms of adaptation of Christian anthroponyms in Votic and Ingrian: a comparative study
... highlighting the complex nature of interlingual contact. Differences in the operation of adaptation mechanisms between Votic and Ingrian are shown to stem from the specific phonological and morphological structures of each language. Particular attention is devoted to processes of vocalic and consonantal adaptation, including consonant gemination, palatalization, and epenthesis. Morphological aspects of adaptation are also described, notably the use of the ancient Finnic suffix *-oi and its variants. The ...
World order, imperialism and the “theory of the fourth world”. Part one
The article constitutes the first part of a broader study devoted to the analysis of Fourth World theory and the evolution of the contemporary world order. This first part presents the results of a brief analysis of the differences and specific features in the scholarly use of the terms “world order,” “international ...
“Staldsen Switzerland”: an episode from the history of nature conservation in East Prussia in the first third of the 20th century
... Additional interest for historians of regional culture may be represented by the fact that Detlefsen, who is known primarily for his activities in the preservation of East Prussian historical and cultural monuments, participated in correspondence devoted to nature conservation. The originals of the published letters are preserved in the Federal Archives of Germany in Koblenz.
Walter Schoenichen, Richard Dethlefsen, nature conservation, protected area, East Prussia
45-58
10.5922/vestnikhum-2026-1-4
The influence of the tram network of Königsberg and Kaliningrad on the spatial development of the urban area
... development are identified. The role of tram lines in the formation of new residential and industrial zones, as well as in the integration of peripheral areas into the urban space, is outlined. The limited availability of contemporary academic sources devoted to the pre-revolutionary and pre-war period in the history of Königsberg’s tram network is demonstrated, which determines the relevance of further research in this field.
Konigsberg, Kaliningrad, tram, spatial development, urbanism, ...
Vladivostok commercial seaport in the first half of the 1920s: export competition and interdepartmental contradictions
The article is devoted to the problem of the development of the Vladivostok commercial port in the early 1920s. The first quarter of the XX century was a time of severe trials for the whole of Russia in general and the Far East in particular: World War I; Civil War; ...
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
... / 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 province, b) a place of memory, c) the space of otherness. This article is devoted to the description of Moscow as a component of this poetic system, the establishment of a circle of motives associated with Moscow, and their role in the Galich plot building. According to the conclusions, the capital in the artistic world of ...
Three stages of publication and perception of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s artistic works in China
The article is devoted to the analysis of the research done on Solzhenitsyn’s literary works in China from 1979 to 2021 on the basis of data from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The article highlights three stages in the process of publishing and ...
Museum exhibition text: intercultural and translation aspects
The article is devoted to the study of the texts of the museum exhibition, which play the mediator role between visitors of a museum and its artifacts. The purpose of the study is to consider the text of the museum exhibition as an effective tool for intercultural communication....
Strategies for optimising intraregional space as a practical implementation of domestic state policy
The article is devoted to the analysis of strategies for optimising intraregional space in the context of implementing domestic state policy. The study focuses on comparing centralized and decentralized approaches to managing regional development, as well as their impact ...
NATO militarisation of the Baltic region and risks security of Russia
... the indicative system for assessing their level of danger, determining thresholds and directions for the development of the situation in vital systems, which would make it possible to make the most correct management decisions. There are many works devoted to the Baltic theme in Russian science, but in recent years there has been a noticeable decrease in publications, especially fundamental research. The foreign scientific community views this problem tendentiously and one-sidedly, and therefore ...
From Pan-Islamism to Pan-Turkism: Changing the paradigm of the political and legal development of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th — early 20th century
This article is devoted to the study of the qualitative transition from the political and legal doctrine of Ottomanism to the doctrine of Pan-Turkism, which took place in the late Ottoman society of the late XIX — early XX century. The problems of state-legal construction ...
Means of expressing the author’s modality in The Epistle to the Ugra of Vassian Rylo
... modern linguistics that language must be studied with consideration of the anthropological factor. In this regard, scholars have shown increasing interest in the category of authorial modality. Since the late 1980s, numerous academic works have been devoted to exploring this category. However, unfortunately, the category of authorial modality has not yet been fully and comprehensively studied from a diachronic perspective; most researchers examine this category based on modern language, which limits ...
Gustav Shpet’s “Notes on Kant”: On the Meaning of “Positive Critique”
The archive of Gustav Shpet contains scattered preparatory materials for his “Lectures on the Theory of Cognition” and his major philosophical work History as a Problem of Logic. Some of these handwritten rough notes are devoted to Kant, indeed some of them have already seen the light of day in the “Kantian Journal” (2022, № 3). The notes published below continue to acquaint the reader with Shpet’s creative laboratory. His method of work with the concepts and ...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current ...
Extralinguistic factors of city renaming in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
The article is devoted to extralinguistic factors that contribute to the renaming of cities in one of the North Caucasian regions of Russia. The study of toponymy, in particular, the oikonyms of a certain territory, is of great importance for the study of the history,...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
The article is devoted to reflecting the image of a city 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 ...
“Philosophers Will Always Admire Kant…”
The topics of this issue, devoted to the tercentenary of Immanuel Kant’s birth, focus on his practical philosophy, most notably on the problems of free will in the light of the debates at the end of the eighteenth century; on the concept of human dignity and its reflection in ...
Review of Recent Russian Studies of Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy
The review covers scholarly publications devoted to the philosophy of Hermann Cohen, the head of the Marburg School of NeoKantianism, written by Russ ian researchers in the period between 2000 and 2023. Although Cohen commanded unquestioned authorityamong Russian philosophers of his time ...
Ascent to “Natural Humanness”: Immanuel Kant in the Philosophical Anthropology of Gustav Shpet
The archive of Gustav Shpet contains scattered preparatory materials for his works. Some of these handwritten rough drafts are devoted to Immanuel Kant. These jottings enable us to take a new look at possible trajectories of philosophical anthropology. The main goal of this article is to show, on the one hand, the modern relevance of Kant’s reflections on the essence of the ...
Kant on War and Peace in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment and German Idealism. Report of the Fourth Immanuel Kant International Summer School
This article presents a report of the Fourth Immanuel Kant International Summer School devoted to Kant’s doctrine of war and peace (24-31 July 2022), organised by the Academia Kantiana of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University with the support of the “Petersburg Dialog” Forum. The lectures of the School’s scientific supervisor,...
Speech acts and speech genres: the case of the compliment
This article is devoted to the speech act of compliment, which is treated herein as expressing the speaker's attention and partiality to their interlocutor. The similarities and differences between speech acts of compliment and praise are analysed, with the characteristics ...
Language of digital poetry description: the semiotic and literary aspects
There is a dearth of empirical literary studies devoted to digital literature, primarily due to the poor development of a methodological framework for analysing digital texts and a lack of clarity as regards the text/meaning-generating capacity of the new communication channel, the language of digital ...
Author-coined terminology in Russian verse theory: the formalist legacy
... [strict accentual verse], one of the most debated concepts in Russian verse studies (the difference between this concept and the related but defunct concept of pauznik [pause-based verse] is also discussed). The concluding section of the article is devoted to the history of the overarching term for verse studies, stikhovedenie (a calque of the German Verslehre). The study of versification terminology allows us to more effectively develop modern verse theory, which dates back in many respects to ...
Territorial Public Self-government (TPGS) as a form of local self-organization of the population
Currently, significant attention is being devoted at various levels of government to the development of civil society, with support directed toward projects initiated by non-profit organizations (NPOs), local communities, and territorial public self-government bodies (TPSGs). A key requirement ...
Kant’s Legacy and Philosophy of the Future. Report of the Fifth Immanuel Kant International Summer School for Young Scholars and Students
The following is a review of the Fifth International Summer School for Young Scholars and Students, held on the eve of the tercentenary of Kant’s birth, and devoted to the question of the relevance of his philosophical ideas for understanding and solving the problems that confront humankind in the twenty-first century. The event was organized by the Academia Kantiana of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University,...
Kant in Russian Police Law: Unknown Pages
... in Russia. One piece of such material, which is published in the appendix to this article, was found in the archive of B. V. Nikolsky, where it is titled “Article by S.V. on the Occasion of the Centenary of Immanuel Kant’s Death. 1904”. It is devoted to Kant’s philosophy of law, the origins of which are traced back to the French Revolution. In addition, the author of the manuscript claims that Kant’s legal conception influenced the development of the science of police law and the reforms ...
The Problem of the Unity of Experience from the Transcendental Perspective
This article is devoted to the problem of the possibility of experience in transcendental idealism. In its classical formulation by Kant, the problem pertains to the correlation between a priori structures of reason and reality. I approach the question of the conditions ...
Enthusiasm and History in the Kantian Perspective. Report of the Seventh Immanuel Kant International Summer School
The Seventh Immanuel Kant International Summer School devoted to the themes of enthusiasm and history in Kantian philosophy was held in Kaliningrad from 28 July to 5 August 2025. Organised by the Academia Kantiana at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, the Petersburg Dialogue and the Sochi Dialogue ...
On the question of the syllabic system of versification: the poetic practice of Theophan Prokopovich
The study is devoted to the analysis of the accentual architectonics of the isosyllabic works of Theophan Prokopovich. The primary objective of this analysis was to examine the hypothesis regarding the gradual emergence of the syllabo-tonic system within the framework ...
The question "Who am I? / What am I?" as a marker of identity search
The article is devoted to the questions "Who am I? What am I?", which have been actively spreading in the Russian language since the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, both in poetry and prose. As a linguistic means of self-presentation and ...
Connectives — full-time employees in discourse and outsourcers in pragmatics .
The article is devoted to connectives, i. e., functional words and constructions whose primary function is to express semantic relations between units of discourse. It aims to explore the pragmatic dimension of connectives, which remains largely underappreciated in ...
Visual language of the city: a case study of the visual perception of third places (the case of Nizhny Novgorod)
The article is devoted to the study of the pragmatic aspects of visual communication in the modern urban environment. The physical objects of the city are interpreted as a text aimed at transmitting specific information to its residents. The research focuses both on ...
Olfactory opposition of “one’s own — another’s” in the context of the war
... sign of “one’s own” and “the other” in the context of war. The material for analysis consists of text fragments in Russian and German that contain references to olfactory processes; the factual material was extracted from works of fiction devoted to the events of the two world wars. The research vector was built taking into account that the semantic and symbolic connotations of smells are closely connected with the sociocultural context, and olfactory experience is subjective. It is ...
Universal digital competences: higher education personalisation for digital economy
The article is devoted to the analysis of the compliance of Russian educational standards with the modern requirements of the data-driven digital economy. Approaches to the formation of students’ universal digital competencies are examined. The main objective of the ...
Criminological study of the prevalence of pornographic content in social networks and messengers (based on an online user survey)
... acute, since their most active users, who spend most of their free time online, are young people, including minors. Pornographic content poses a serious threat to their moral development. The article presents the results of a criminological study devoted to examining the spread of pornographic content in social networks and messengers. The study was conducted through an anonymous online survey of users. The data analyzed include the frequency of users’ exposure to pornographic content, the methods ...
Linguocultural aspect of localization of in-game terms and realia (based on the computer role-playing game Disco Elysium)
This research is devoted to the study of efficacious translation strategies in the process of game localization. It discusses the means of linguistic localization of videogames in terms of cultural linguistic approach. The attention is paid to the analysis of the methods ...
Presidential election campaign in the United States in 1980: fea¬tures and re-sults
The article is devoted to the analysis of the 1980 U. S. presidential election campaign. Special attention is given to the historical conditions that influenced the election outcome, against which the partisan political struggle unfolded. Each U. S. presidential campaign ...
FROM THE EDITOR
... the coming year and encourage further discussion of the proposed concepts and methodological approaches, especially given the inherently debatable nature of many contributions published over the course
of the year. The second section of this issue is devoted to a theme both central and longstanding for the journal: the reflection of cultural and historical epochs in the word, as well as the word’s active role in shaping them. This juxtaposition has unexpectedly revealed a deeper connection between ...