Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
... 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,...
Toponyms as a convolutional cultural linguistic code
This article considers the coding of linguistic and extralinguistic infor-mation contained in a special class of proper names, namely, toponyms. The article presents new data on the development of the “Toponymy of Russia” information system. Based on the entries relating to Smolensk geographical place names, the author demonstrates the abilities of the electronic resource. The article ...
The Rоs names of the Dnieper rapids of the Ros origin and the toponymy of South-Eastern Baltic
This article delves into the etymology of the names of the Dnieper rapids of the Ros origin mentioned by Constantine Porphyrogennetos. The author reveals the similarity between these names and the Baltic toponymy.
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Field Arrangement of Toponymic Lexemes in Regional Language
The article considers the development of regional toponymic lexicon on the basis of the Volgograd region geographical names. The author offers the field approach to characterising functional and semantic unity of linguistic units on various synchronic snapshots of the end of the 20th — beginning of ...
Workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region and their subsequent renaming in 1946—1947
... toponymy changed completely. The author analyses the documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archives of Socio- Political History, and the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region to trace the Russianisation of German toponyms. The decision to establish workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region was discussed in September 1946 — July 1947. Local authorities sought to create more settlements of the kind. However, the RSFSR leadership insisted on the establishment ...
German place names in the Kaliningrad region: the commemorative aspect
... settlements in the Kaliningrad region. The place names often reflect highly important historical events or are the names of outstanding people. Old German place names were changed in the 1940s of the 20th century. The author highlights the semantics of the toponymic units and the ways of their correlation.
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The renaming campaign in Warmia and Masuria after World War II
Using 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 ...
Spatiotemporal features of the regional nature management basing upon toponymic data
The article explores the application of toponymic data for the investigation of spatiotemporal features of regional nature management
The article provides some results obtained through the formant method (on the example of Altai).
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Г.
На стыке цивилизаций: ...
Problems of transliteration and translation of Kazakh geographical names
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 ...
Polynominativity of geographical objects in the linguocultural context
... 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.,...
Unofficial astyonyms and katoyconyms as markers of regional identity
... the city of Kaliningrad and its residents investigated on user comments in regional social networks and a survey conducted by regional media (approximately 5000 participants). The study identifies the main patterns of forming unofficial demonyms and toponyms, including those derived from the pre-war name of the city, Königsberg. The pragmatic functions performed by these names are determined. There is noted an asymmetry in the composition of unofficial names for the residents of Kaliningrad compared ...
Functions of words-realities in S. Rushdie’s novel “midnight’s Children”
... to the creation of national-cultural color and referentially related to local objects and popular dishes of Indian national cuisine. The artistic pragmatics of realia words in the novel "Midnight’s Children" is characterized. The role of toponyms is characterized by their involvement in structuring the local coordinates of the textual continuum. It has been demonstrated that the nominations of national dishes used by the author serve to intensify the development of plotlines in artistic ...
Microtoponym of the Smolensk-Belarusian border region (Rudnyansky district)
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 ...
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
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...
Semantics of abionims in S. Snegov’s novel “People as Gods”
... aesthetic function and at the same time endow the novel with additional deep meanings that contribute to a more holistic perception of artistic reality.
Rozhin V.O.
S. Snegov, science fiction, “People as Gods”, onomastics, artistic space, toponyms, abionyms
75-84
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-2-7
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... historical consciousness peculiar to the residents of the South-Eastern Baltic region, once the province of East Prussia. Per Brodersen looked at the Sovietisation of Königsberg, and its transformation into Kaliningrad in socio-cultural, mental and toponymic terms [12]. Andrzej Sakson employed the comparative approach when analysing the socio-cultural characteristics of today’s residents of Lithuania’s Klaipėda County, Russia’s Kaliningrad region and Poland’s Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
This paper explores the Estonian vision of Baltic identity. Estonia’s authorities have repeatedly articulated their scepticism towards the concept of a stand-alone ‘Baltic region’ and the inclusion of Estonia in it, preferring to position their state as a Nordic country. Yet, in numerous cases, they have clearly labelled Estonia as a Baltic State. To identify the contexts and meanings labelling the country as a Baltic State, this contribution provides a content analysis of official speeches...
Extralinguistic factors of city renaming in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
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[Geographical names of the world: Toponymic dictionary]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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gra
fiyakh. Tom 1. Ot drevneishikh vremen do Ermolova
[Caucasian war in separate essays, episodes, legends and biographies....
Representation of the image of Kaliningrad in the names of guided city tours
The article offers a qualitative content analysis of the names of Kaliningrad city tours and identifies the main distinctive features of the image of the city represented in them. The name of the tour is a message sent by the tour operator to the addressee — the potential consumer of tourist services. This type of communication is not exclusively commercial; it has an indirect impact on the accomplishment of a broader range of socially significant goals, first and foremost, the formation of a positive...
The image of Kaliningrad in the perception of university students
The image of the city as one of the most important elements of modern post-industrial reality is an essential element in the world picture of any individual. The research aims to study the peculiarities of perception and verbal representation of the image of Kaliningrad by the students of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. The objectives of the research determined the choice of a comprehensive methodology, which included the method of unfinished sentences, as well as the methods of interpretation...
Cultural code of the city
The article explores one of the modern trends in the semiotic analysis of the city and urban environment — the study of the cultural code of the city. In the contemporary academic discourse, the importance of studying the cultural code of the city is growing not so much as a phenomenon but as a system of decoding and cognizing each specific city in its own context. This aspect is closely related to the analysis of the problem of enhancing urban identity and local patriotism, as well as identifying...
The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
... basins of the Neva (River Lovat) and the Western Dvina (River Usvyacha) during the existence of the ‘route from the Varangians to the Greeks’. This reconstruction and the study of the watershed territories, the system of land communication routes and toponymic features of this territory conclusively demonstrate that the ‘way from the Varangians to the Greeks’, or the Baltic-Black Sea waterway, could actually exist.
1. Fedotova, P. I. 2019, Geography vs History. Was the trade route «from ...
Onomastic component of a linguistic identity of a Russian military officer
... of the concept of onomastic space to a community and gives a detailed description of various proper names that call the subjects and objects of activity in a military society, demonstrating the need to study official and unofficial anthroponyms, toponyms, chrematonyms, ergonyms and chrononyms, since this will reveal such qualities of military officers as patriotism, emotionality, as well as high level of intellectual development and creativity in naming.
1. Баишева З. В. ...
Cultural codes in the toponymy of the Roslaval district of the Smolensk region
In the framework of cultural linguistics, this article explores the informational field of proper names, specifically, toponyms. The study focuses on oeconyms, in particular, the official names of villages in one of the Smolensk region’s most important districts – Roslavl. A total of 314 names were analysed to describe relevant cultural codes, which are based on ...
Character’s existence in the Königsberg/Kaliningrad toposphere: Yu.N Ivanov’s Dances in the Crematorium and Michael Wieck’s The Decline of Königsberg
... existence of the main characters in Yuri Ivanov’s Dances in the Crematorium and Michael Wieck’s The Decline of Königsberg demonstrates clear typological convergences. The common toposphere is Königsberg/Kaliningrad, which incorporates a wide range of toponym types and subtypes — the district of Amalienau, Hufen- Allee, Alte Pillauer Landstraße, Paradeplatz, Nordbahnhof, Tiergarten, Luisenwahl, Kneiphof, Pregel, Schlossteich to name just a few. The urbanonyms denoting the main characters’ places ...
Between mysticism and technique: anagram the European Baroque culture
... de l’équivoque: les manuscrits à devise anagrammatique à la fin du Moyen Âge // Lecture, représentation et citation. L’image comme texte et l’image comme signe (XIe-XVIIe siècle). Lille, 2007. P. 117—128.
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Historical and linguistic analysis of the Kaliningrad regional oronimics
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Peteshova O. V.
renaiming, toponym, oronym, East Prussia, coordination of topo¬nyms
44-49
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 in view of the former Russian, Polish, or Lithuanian name, a town’s geographical position, Russian and Soviet military history, and communist...
The pragmatic functions of culture-specific words in a retrospective discourse
... retrospective discourse which is structured by various means including culture-specific words. The author offers a systematized classification of these words depending on the effect these words produce on the reader. Special attention is paid to anthroponyms, toponyms, and temporal markers accumulating information which is important to the reader.
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On the toponymic purism in North-East Prussia in the first half of the 20th century
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Peteshova O.
renaming, toponym, purism, Germanisation, East Prussia, National socialism.
68-73
Small business developing the regional Identity: a case study in the Baltic Sea Region
This article compares the frequency of the use of the toponym 'Baltic' in the names of small enterprises in Baltic cities. The author draws conclusions on the role of small business in the development of regional identity in the Baltic Sea region and assesses the prospects for the formation of a regional ...
The image of river in A. Ivanov’s novel The gold of revolt: the linguistic aspect
....
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Karnaukhova O.A.
lingvostylistics, river, toponym, nomination, space, archetype
109-113