The role of the concorded renaming in the formation of the oikonymy in the Kaliningrad Region
The article examines the ways in which the original East Prussian and new Soviet oikonyms were concorded during the post-war renaming of some settlements in the Kaliningrad region. A comparative phonetic and semantic analysis of the respective names revealed that the same thematic correlation (with a predominance of references to the flora, fauna and water bodies of the area) ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... witnessed a growing interest in Kant from Kaliningrad intellectuals. At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosopher’s name and image were integrated into tourist narratives and practices. In 2016, Tsentralny Island in Kaliningrad was officially renamed Kant Island. Today, Kant is the most recognisable and popular foreign figure in the region’s pre-war history, among locals and visitors alike; his name has become somewhat of a tourist ‘brand’. A memorial plaque to three Albertina professors ...
The renaming campaign in Warmia and Masuria after World War II
... documents, the press, and studies of Polish scholars, this article analyses the problem of changing German toponyms during the remaining campaign in Warmia and Masuria in the early postwar years. The historical background, conditions, and principles of renaming settlements, natural objects, streets, and squares are identified and the practical problems of the renaming campaign are analysed. It is concluded that these processes were quite dissimilar in Poland and the USSR, which is explained by different ...
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, ethnography, and culture of the people living in this ...
The renaming of district centres in the Kaliningrad region in 1946
The preparation of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of September 7, 1946 on renaming the district centers of the Kaliningrad region is analysed based on documents of federal archives. Principles behind giving Soviet names to former German towns were changed several times in the process. At different stages, new names were given ...
Polynominativity of geographical objects in the linguocultural context
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Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... settlement cluster around the Finnish industrial town of Enso was once a single entity. However, after the war, the settlement was divided into two cities on different sides of the state border. The part of the settlement that remained in Finland was renamed Imatra, while the part that was in the Soviet Union was renamed Svetogorsk. It was populated by people from different parts of Russia [27].
During the 1970s and 1980s, close ties were formed between the two cities as they worked together on a ...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
... landscape-distinctive, social-functional and social-symbolic codes. The paper defines the specificity of the realisation of cultural semantic codes in the toponymy (urbanonymy) of Ekaterinburg relative to three chronotopic junctures determined by the city renaming landmark acts — Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Ekaterinburg. Topical meanings are revealed in the toponymic portrait of the city in different periods of its life. The changes that increase in the toponymy in the framework of one chronotopic juncture ...
Workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region and their subsequent renaming in 1946—1947
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Kaliningrad region, toponymy, renaming, workers’ settlement
Maslov V. N.
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Historical and linguistic analysis of the Kaliningrad regional oronimics
The article distinguishes the specificity of the renaming of different land forms. The renaming was carried out after the former East Prussia had become part of the Soviet Union. The article has a special focus on describing minor errors, comparison of the original oronyms with the new ones, and eliciting ...
On the toponymic purism in North-East Prussia in the first half of the 20th century
This article analyses the large-scale renaming campaign held by the German leadership in the late 1930s in order to Germanise the Prussian territories of the state. It is concluded that the puristic activities of German National Socialists widely discussed in the modern scientific community ...
Problems of transliteration and translation of Kazakh geographical names
... (denomination). The study establishes that these modifications adhere to general language laws and are influenced by differences in the typological characteristics of Turkic and Slavic languages. The article argues that the intensification of toponym renaming processes necessitates coordination and control by state administration bodies. This involves systematic organization and standardization of geographical names. The issue of standardizing geographical names in Kazakhstan is particularly ...
Semantic potential of the lexeme twilight in Russian poetry
... sense, contributing to the creation of a lyrical chronotope and landscape sketches. In this context, the meaning actualized in the literary text may deviate from the dictionary lexical definition, such as in cases of personification and periphrastic renamings like 'twilight witch' or 'twilight monk.' 2) Figurative and symbolic meanings in poetry become notably prominent during the Silver Age. This period witnesses an enrichment of the conventional semantics, with various "extensions" ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... sixth conference held in October 2022, the title “Region of Cooperation” was no longer fitting, given the annulment of all forms of cooperation between Russia and the Baltic region countries by the Western side. Consequently, the conference was renamed “New Trajectories of International Cooperation”. This shift was accompanied by a change in the composition of foreign participants, with representatives from Belarus, the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), China, and India taking ...
German place names in the Kaliningrad region: the commemorative aspect
... Верховного Совета СССР // Материалы Государственного архива Калининградской области 297.1.102а.
Peteshova O.
German placenames, anthroponym, patronymic toponym, commemorative toponym, renaming
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