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above-mentioned concepts have a common structure. There has been revealed the similarity between the structures of language and the unconscious . "

Zinaida Ye. Fomina made the report on the topic: "The Phenomenon "Faith" in Martin Luther`s Religious-and-Philosophical Discourse". The following basic maxims were considered: 1) "inner man" and Faith"; 2) the inner man and his freedom, whose source is truth, acquired by Faith; 3) theodidacti as the goal of Faith. Based on the study of M. Luther`s language picture of the world, there were singled out and examined the cognitive-and-epistemological models of Faith: cosmological, psychophysiological, ethical-moral, juvenile, artifact ones, etc., forming the basis of the religious-and-philosophical definition of Faith. M. Luther's reflections on the existential qualities of Faith, its correlations with other semantically related concepts, its denial and the consequences of unbelief were also analyzed.

SECTION 3 Faith and belief. Experience of comprehension presented the reports of Professor V. I. Postovalova, Professor S. Nikitina, Professor O. Kazakevich, and others.

Professor Valentina I. Postolovova delivered the report on the theme: "Concept faith in orthodox world-outlook (Experience of Theo-linguistic comprehension)." The author considered the concept "Faith" from the position of the six conceptual-and-methodological aspects: the theo-anthropological, phenomenological, logical-and-theological, gnoseological (Faith of contemplation and reason), mystic-and-ascetic, cathedral-and-liturgical ones. In accordance with the theo-anthropological aspect (1), Faith gives birth to a new person, it is an integrating force that connects man to God. Within the phenomenological aspect (2), Faith is interpreted as evidence, as the path by which God and Man go to meet each other. Faith has a synergetic character. The phenomenon Faith is interpreted as revelation, like the ladder between the heaven and the earth. In the logical-and- theological aspect (3) "Faith" is mystery and sacrament. According to Isaac the Syrian`s definition, Faith is the gates of sacraments. The problem of different perception and understanding the essence of God by people is posed. In terms of the gnoseological approach (4), Faith is treated as contemplation and reason. Faith is connected with truth and does not need confirmation. The main maxim is the statement of the question: truth is not what, but who is? Truth is Jesus Christ (Maximus the Confessor (7th century). The mystic-and-ascetic aspect of Faith (5) proceeds from the interpretation of Faith as confidence, trust, faithfulness. In Ignati Branchaninov`s opinion, there is natural faith (all believe), energetic faith, being realized mainly by ascetics, and living faith as God`s Gift. The ca- thedral-and-liturgical aspect of Faith is a Divine Service, reflecting dogmas in action.

The theme of the report by Professor Seraphima Ye. Nikitina was: "Faith: one`s own

– someone else`s - the other". The author devoted her report to the discussion of the specific character of Faith among Old Believers, Molokans and Dukhobors in terms of the triad "one`s own faith, someone else`s faith - the other." Prof. S. E. Nikitina stressed that Old Believers place strong emphasis on their own Faith: "We have our own Faith." As is known, two fingers of Old Believers symbolize the unity of God and man. Old Believers esteem icons. Unlike Old Believers, Molokans and Dukhobors deny icons, they do not recognize the dual nature of man. Molokans recognize and esteem the Bible, worship God. Dukhobors do not recognize the Bible. It is of interest, that it is typical for them to worship God, but not the Virgin Mary.

Professor Olga A. Kazakevich presented the report on the theme: "Witch-Doctors and Shamans of the Peak of Tutura: Faith Based on Experience". The author summarized the results of her scientific observations made during the expeditions to the northern regions of our country, during which there were numerous interesting meetings, in the scientific-research plan, with local witch-doctors and the descendants of shamans that allowed her to obtain some scientific data on northern peoples` idea about their faith, folk rituals and traditions.

The research of Nicholay N. Voropaev (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Languages of East and South-East Asia, Research Officer) was devoted to the problem of the specific character of Chinese Faith. He made the report on the

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theme: "Unity of Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Other Cults in the System of Chinese Beliefs." The reporter emphasized that in Chinese Faith all three main directions are integrated: Daoists (Lao Dzy), Confucians and Buddhists. Unlike Christians, the main thing for ch i- nese: faith is not who, but what? So, for example, offering is done to the Teachers and idols, but not to the Gods, worship to heaven is observed. Buddhism is a cosmic representation (28 measurements, reincarnation, etc.). By the importance, religions are distributed as follows: 1. Confucianism - cereals (daily bread). 2. Daoism is silver. 3. Buddhism is gold. In the linguistic plan, N. N.Voropayev examined 50 hieroglyphs and at the same time, found that Faith means jiao - instruction, admonition.

Maxim M. Makartsev (Ph.D. in Philology, Senior Scientific Officer of the Institute of Slavonic Studies, RAS,) considered the topic: "Faith in the Old Believers' Value System in Poland". Old Believers, as is known, live in Russia, the USA, Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and other regions. In 2017, the staff of the Institute of Slavonic Studies conducted a field study among the Old Believers of Poland. In total, in 2017, 38 informants were interviewed at the age of 22 to 94 (46 hours of audio recording). While carrying out the research, M. M. Makartsev used the method of auto-generated description of Old Believers. In order to describe their psychological portrait, the researchers addressed the Polish residents of the settlements in which the Old Believers live, with the question: How would you describe Old Believers? The analysis of the character descriptions of Old Believers made it possible to conclude that the positive traits related to their Faith, way of life, behavior, etc., predominantly dominate. So, benevolence, decency, reliability, modesty, obligatory return of debt, neatness, sacrifice, benevolence, etc. were noted. At the same time, it was stressed that Old Believers are separated between each other.

Professor Naila N. Fattakhova (Doctor in Philology, Kazan Federal University) and Associate Professor Maria A. Kulkova (Ph.D. in Philology, Kazan Federal University), payed attention to the necessity of distinguishing, on the one hand, the people's signs, including the calendar ones (often with the name of Saint), which had been evolved over the centuries and reflected the peculiarities of people's (peasant) being, the culture of agriculture, contained practical recommendations pointing to the time of sowing, harvesting, etc., and, on the other hand, the signs artificially formed in the modern mass media of all sorts of pseudo-signs concerning the way of life of modern people, their behavior, phobias, problems, etc.

S. V. Kabakova (Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor of the Institute of Linguistics, of the RAS), devoted her report to the theme: "Images of Faith in Church and Folk Art". The author showed the inner relationship between Faith and its reflection in the Old Russian art of icon-painting. In the speaker`s opinion, an enormous contribution to preserving the primordial Old Russian culture of Faith was made by Old Believers, who had been engaged in iconpainting and created truly unrivaled masterpieces from ancient times. The icons depicted not only the divine faces of certain Saints, but also there were obligatorily present the elegant floral ornaments that were called to symbolize the Garden of Eden, the heavenly tabernacles. All this was done in filigree technique. The bright multi-colored things, the domination of the blue color (the divine origin, the symbol of heaven), the golden one (the symbol of the sun) and the green color (the symbol of eternal life), grace of the unusual patterns that were subtly, almost invisibly, connected with each other, struck with marvelous and indescribable beauty. Much attention was paid to floral, woody ornament.

Along with the heavenly tabernacles, the icons of Old Believers depicted the tree of life, as well as a vine as a symbol of fertility. It is characteristic, that the frameworks of Old Believers' icons are framed with bunches of grapes.

As is known, after the split in 1666, the icons of Old Believers were annihilated. Their Faith for a long time was regarded as sectarian. Everything that was associated with Old Believers, in the context of the new church policy of that time and much later, was perceived exceptionally negatively. Not only the faith of Old Believers was declared sectarian, but they

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were themselves attributed to a particular religious sectarian caste, allegedly existing separately from Russian people. The merit of Old Believers lay in the fact that they were not only preserving and had preserved their original Faith until the 21st century, whose principles were formulated at the first Ecumenical Council in Nicaea in 325 (in "Creed"), but also had kept their beautiful, special-way created, icon-painting. Their profound biblical subjects and amazingly beautiful images passed from the destroyed and forbidden Old Believer`s icons to the objects of Old Believers life (distaffs, dishes, etc.), to their dwellings, etc. The divine faces and images, the depiction of flowers as symbols of the Garden of Eden, the tree of life, the fantastic ancient ornaments, which are primarily characterized by the delicacy of the fulfillment , special (divine) beauty and grace could now be seen in separate parts of the structures of their dwellings, in the inner decoration of their houses, in handicrafts, crafts, etc., and most importantly, on the famous windows, roofs, etc., where there were clearly depicted the ancient church symbols, the images of Saints, i.e. the elements of the former, age-old Russian icon-painting, filled with deep meanings and wonderful beauty. S. V. Kabakova managed to convincingly show the inner interrelationship between Faith and its reflection in Old Russian icon, determined by E. N. Trubetskoi as the "world-outlook in colors".

Summing up all the reports delivered, I believe it is important to emphasize that each of them deserves special attention, since every one of them contained very interesting scientific discoveries and facts, created the basis for lively and interesting discussions, deep conceptual problems, expanded the horizons of scientific cognition, compelled to comprehend what was said, and they, taken together, gave a very capacious, multilateral, profound and essential idea of Faith in different languages and cultures.

In conclusion, we would like to emphasize that the conference aimed at exchanging scientific knowledge made it possible to get acquainted with the results of topical modern studies on fundamental problems of language and culture, language and ethnos, language and society, helped to establish scientific contacts with colleagues from native and foreign universities, provided an opportunity to listen to the reports of leading native and foreign scientists-linguists, etc.

I express my deep gratitude to all the organizers of the conference and especially to Professor Maria L. Kovshova for holding the excellent conference, for the warm and friendly atmosphere that promoted the organization of interesting discussions, for inexhaustible scientific enthusiasm which leads to new important discoveries and achievements.

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Chair of Foreign Languages of VSTU, Honorary Person of the Higher Professional Education,

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Z.Ye. Fomina

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On XVI International scientific conference «Onomastics of the Volga region», dedicated to the 50-th anniversary of the first Volga region onomastic conference and the memory of its organizer V.A. Nikonov (Ulyanovsk, September 20-23, 2017)

A significant event in the Russian and the international philological environment was the conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region», the organizers and the participants of which have been actively promoting the achievements of onomastic science for half a century with their research activities. So, from September 20 to 23, 2017 in the city of Ulyanovsk on the basis of the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov under the aegis of the UNESCO Chair of Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University «Titular Languages in the Intercultural Educational Space» was held the XVI International Scientific Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region», dedicated to the 50-th anniversary of the first Volga Region onomastic conference and the memory of its founder - honorary member of the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences under UNESCO Vladimir A. Nikonov (1904-1988), a scientist standing at the origins of the Russian onomastic studies.

By the beginning of the conference, the issue of the anniversary collection of memoirs «"Onomastics of the Volga Region": from the History of the Conference» under the scientific editorship of V.I. Suprun, S.V. Ryabushkina, E.V. Zakharova, R.V. Razumov (Ulyanovsk, 2017) was published, in which are presented the essays of the participants of the conferences

«Onomastics of the Volga region» of past years, the memories of the students and of some colleagues about the organizer and the inspirer of this scientific project V.A. Nikonov, as well as some materials from the archive of the Superanskaya family, and also a number of historical photo documents of the meetings of the onomastic conferences of the Volga region from 1967 to 2016.

The collection of memoirs opens «The Word on Vladimir A. Nikonov» (from the preface to V.A. Nikonov's book «Geography of Surnames»), by Corresponding Member of RAS, Acad. RANS, the Head of the Onomastics Group at the Department of Foreign Asia and Oceania of the IEA RAS, Roza Sh. Dzharylgasinova (1931-2017), the follower of V.A. Nikonov: «Vladimir A. Nikonov (1904-1988) is one of the most famous specialists in onomastics ... His numerous scientific works such as books («Introduction to Toponymy», 1965; «Short Toponymic Dictionary», 1966; «Name and Society», 1974; «Geography of Surnames», 1988; «Searching for a Name», 1988; «Dictionary of Russian Surnames», 1993), articles, notes - were devoted to various areas of onomastic studies ... Vladimir A. Nikonov's truly beloved child were conferences on onomastics of the Volga region (Ulyanovsk, Gorky, Ufa, Saransk, Penza)». Shared their memories and expressed an opinion about V.A. Nikonov as a remarkable edifier and a well-known scientist-onomatologist, literary critic, linguist, geographer, ethnographer Ruf A. Ageeva, Scientific Editor of the publishing house «Academia», Ph.D, for many years was the member of the organized by V.A. Nikonov Toponymy Commission in the system of the Geographical Society (now the Russian Geographical Society); Vasily I. Suprun, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof. of the Russian Language and the Methods of Teaching Department of Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Chairman of the Permanent Organizing Committee of the conferences «Onomastics of the Volga Region»; Olga T. Molchanova, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Titular Professor of the Institute of Anglic Studies of the University of Szczecin (Poland), participant of the first Volga Region onomastic conference (1967), etc.

At the solemn opening ceremony of the scientific conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» made a speech the Rector of Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov Т.V. Devyatkina; Chairman of the Permanent Organizing Committee of the con-

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ference «Onomastics of the Volga Region», Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof. of Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University V.I. Suprun; Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» in Ulyanovsk, Ph.D., A.P. S.V. Ryabushkina; Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Prof. of the Philology, Publishing and Editing Department of Ulyanovsk State Technical University A.A. Dyrdin. The conference received a greeting from the participant of the «Onomastics of the Volga Region» conference, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof. of Leipzig University K. Hengst (Germany).

During the XVI International Scientific Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» a wide range of problems of the theory and the methodology of onomastic research, anthroponymics, toponymics and urbanonymy, literary and folk onomastics and translation problems of onomastics was traditionally touched upon, issues of studying onomastic periphery, pedagogical aspects of onomastics, as well as many other areas of onomastic research were examined. This year, the conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» gathered a record number of participants: over 250 people, including more than 60 Doctors of Sciences, about 120 Candidates of Sciences and PhD, as well as many university professors, school teachers, postgraduate and master students, undergraduates, students, etc. In addition to the plenary and sectional sessions, the following events took place in a separate line: the meeting «U p - t o - d a t e P r o b l e m s o f R e s e a r c h a n d L e x i c o g r a p h y o f P r o p e r N a m e s » dedicated to the memory of Vladimir A. Nikonov, the round table «S i m b i r s k a n d t h e S i m b i r i a n s i n t h e C u l - t u r e o f R u s s i a » from the point of view of linguistic and literary scholars, geographers, historians and culturologists, as well as a master class «L i n g u i s t i c - a n d - d i d a c t i c D i c - t i o n a r y " R u s s i a " : M e t h o d s o f U s e i n t h e E d u c a t i o n a l P r o c e s s ». Based on the materials of the XVI International Scientific Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» a two-volume collection including 176 articles of the participants in the onomastic hearings was published (64,16 p.s.).

At the p l e n a r y s e s s i o n , the wide and varied topics of the conference were announced. The speakers were N.V. Vasilieva (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Chief Scientific Officer of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics of RAS, Moscow); V.M. Kalinkin (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic); V.I. Suprun (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Volgograd); F.G. Hisamitdinova (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa); G.F. Kovalev (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Voronezh State University, Voronezh) and a number of other scientists.

The scientific report by Natalia V. Vasilieva (Moscow) «Pragmatic Potential of the Russian Name Formula» deals with the Russian triplex name formula, which documentarily represents a fixed form but in its functioning may be considered as a variety of component combinations from the point of view of the communicants’ intentions disclosing. Valery M. Kalinkin

(Donetsk, DNR) in his scientific report «Proper Names in Writer’s Language as Instrument of Onymogenesis Study and Problem of Onymography» noted the dynamic character of the poetonymy semantics, which makes the proper names in writer's language at the same time a material for the study of poetics, and a tool for studying onomogenesis. Vasiliy I. Suprun (Volgograd) presented a report on the subject: «Toponymic Tales and Dialect Etymology: Materials Recording Texts during the Ethno-Linguistic Expedition», which is the result of generalization of the data from ethnolinguistic expeditions with the aim of fixing toponyms, microtoponyms and other dialectal names and toponymic legends, which form an important part of the linguoculture of the Russian people, and also offered a scientific explanation of the etymological constructions based on the analysis of folk traditions. The scientific report «Names of SpiritPatrons of the Animal World in Bashkir Onomastics» by Firdaus G. Hisamitdinova (Ufa) briefly describes the beliefs of Bashkirs related to the spirit-patrons of the animal world; the

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namings and the names of spirit-patrons are analyzed; the dialectal, general Bashkir, common Turkic denominations of spirit-patrons are clarified, the place of myths associated with the spir- it-patrons of animals and birds in Bashkir onomastics is established. In the report with the declaring title «Let’s Save our Russian Homeland!» Gennady Ph. Kovalev (Voronezh) turned to the up-to-date problem of specific functioning of Russian surname as anthroponymic category of Russian language, which, unfortunately, due to the powerful influence of Western tendencies (the Roman-Germanic traditions) on Russian patronymic system ceased to be used in Russian newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, however, in the conventional Russian speech surnames are actively used, especially in the vocative form.

SECTION 1 «T h e o r y a n d M e t h o d o l o g y o f O n o m a s t i c S t u d i e s » included scientific reports by I.V. Kryukova (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Volgograd); A.G. Shayhulov (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Bashkir State University, Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan); N.V. Hausmann-Ushkova (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Jena Higher School of Applied Sciences named after Ernst Abbey, Weimar, Germany); J. Serjee (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Mongolian State University, Ulan-Bator, Mongolia); V.P. Shulgach (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Leading Scientific Officer of Institute of Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine); E.G. Rostova (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, A.P., Leading Scientific Worker of the Research Laboratory of Innovative Teaching Tools for the Russian Language, State Institute of Russian Language named after A.S. Pushkin, Moscow); E.R. Nikolaev (postgraduate student, Institute for Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North of SB RAS, Yakutsk, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)) and many others.

The scientific report by Irina V. Kryukova (Volgograd) «Russian Connotative Proper Names and their Lexicographical Representation: Problems and Prospects» substantiates the necessity for lexicographic description of Russian post-soviet connotative onyms, which have acquired emotional and evaluative meanings within the latest decades, thus losing the onomas-

gests the principles of lexicographic representation of such names and the structure of a dictionary entry. In his scientific report «Onomasticon of the Circumulatory Language Union

(methodological aspects of the composition of the ideographic dictionary of the toponyms of the Ural-Volga region in the Eurasian context)» Almas G. Shayhulov made an attempt to show up monosyllabic root words in the common word stock of the languages that are analyzed (particularly, Turkish varieties of Idil-Kama-Ural ethnolingustical region in Eurasian context) and their ideographical and ethnolinguistical characteristics in four cognitive spheres ( I. Nature; II. Aman; III. Society. IV. Cognition). Nadezhda V. Hausmann-Ushkova (Weimar, Germany) in her scientific work «Anthroponymic Images in the Language and Conceptual Pictures of the World» studies the theoretical basis of categorization in the onomastic lexicosphere, particular attention is paid to the consideration of transient phenomena; some features of conceptualization and linguistic representation of elements through anthroponyms are described. J. Serjee (Ulan Bator, Mongolia) together with Ph.D., A.P. D. Enkhbat (Ulan Bator, Mongolia) in the scientific work «Grammatical Ways of Formation of Complex Personal Names of Mongols» made an attempt to consider the Mongolian personal names in the structural-and-morphological plan, as well as to analyze complex personal names, considering the types of syntactic links and relationships between components (compositional and subordinate connections, attributive and predicative relations), the methods of formation of complex anthroponyms (compound and suf- fix-composite methods), etc. Viktor P. Shulgach (Kiev, Ukraine) in a very original study «Towards the Etymological Sources of the Zoonym S t r i d e r /Ж у л д ы б а » turned to the etymology of the zoonym Ж у л д ы б а (the nickname of the horse S t r i d e r /Ж у л д ы б а in the story «Kholstomer» by L.N. Tolstoy), reconstructing the * Ņ ь l d о b a archetype, apophonically related with the *G ъ l d o b a form (a name from appellative origin though any similar motivat-

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ing etymon, based on accessible dialectal sources, has not been fixed yet). Evgeniya G. Rostova

(Moscow) in the study «Precedent Toponyms in the Multimedia Dictionary of Language and Culture "Russia"» presented the features of multimedia Dictionary «Russia» (language and culture) as an educational dictionary for studying Russian as a foreign language (in particular, the lexicographic description on the example of ways of verbalization of the national-cultural background of the toponym «V o l g a »). The scientific report by Egor R. Nikolaev (Yakutsk)

«Yakut Figurative Proper Names: "Names-Movements "» offers a peculiar excursus into the history of inner cultural Yakut anthroponyms revealing their imagery as one of their peculiarities, which describes the appearance of a person in motion (based on the materials of yasak documents and folklore texts).

Within the framework of the work of SECTION 2 «G e n e r a l a n d t h e V o l g a R e - g i o n T o p o n y m y , M i c r o t o p o n y m y , U r b a n o n y m y », the studies are presented by

I.M. Ganzhina (Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference «Onomastics of the

Volga Region-2014», Ph.D., A.P., Tver State University, Tver); W. Szetela (Candidate of Philological Sciences, A.P., Moscow State Pedagogical University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow-Warsaw, Russia-Poland); S.A. Popov (Candidate of Philological Sciences, Voronezh State University, Voronezh) and many others.

Irina M. Ganzhina (Tver) co-authored with the teacher of the Russian language and literature, the main curator of the Museum of the noble family Bakunin’s country estate Marina Yu. Chernenok (Pryamukhino, Kuvshinovsky district, Tver region) in the scientific report «Verbalization of Reality in Microtoponyms of Bakunin’s Country Estate» considered the system of microtoponyms in Bakunin’s country estate (Tver region) and showed the reflection of the spiritual and material world in onyms as well as the parameters of the surrounding reality conceptually significant in the past. The scientific report by Wiktor Szetela (Moscow-Warsaw, Russia-Poland) «About Hydronyms of the Vistula and the Oder River – basing on the Russian texts through different years» talks about the problem in the naming of the Vistula and the Oder river basins, on the basis of the historically changing state affiliated territory which they flow through: German or Polish names of the same rivers in their Latin writing changed form during their transition to the Cyrillic alphabet in Russian newspaper reports from the scene of operations. Sergey A. Popov (Voronezh) in the article «Normative Legal Acts of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation as a Toponymic Source (on the example of Voronezh region)» offers an examination of the current legislative acts of the Voronezh region in the administrativeterritorial structure of the region to prove the fact that modern legislation of the Voronezh region in the sphere of the administrative-territorial structure of the region establishes legal framework activities in the field of assignment of names to geographical objects and renaming of geographical objects being a serious official source for researchers of the toponymy of the region.

SECTION 3 «Problems of Anthroponymy, Ethnonyms and Zoonymics» unified a number of scientific reports on various subjects by the following authors: A.C. Shaposhnikov (Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Scientific Fellow of the Department of Ethymology and Onomastics, Institute of Russian Language named after V.V. Vinogradov, RAS, Moscow); М.H. Parzulova (Ph.D., Prof., Head of the Department of Bulgarian Language and Literature, Prof. Dr Asen Zlatarov University, Burgas, Bulgaria); O.N. Sklyarenko (Ph.D., A.P., Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Odessa, Ukraine); T.P. Romanova (Ph.D., A.P., Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev, Samara) and many others.

Alexander C. Shaposhnikov (Moscow) in his scientific report «Old Russian Composite Names of a Younger Series on Common Slavonic Background: Etymological Aspect» stated the main results of etymological analysis of Old Russian composite proper names on the Common Slavonic anthroponymic background having revealed some specific archaisms of the Late Common Slavonic dialectal periphery area, sometimes not fixed otherwise in Old Russian liter-

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ature which unable to offer the most probable etymologies for a number of nominal bases

Bulgaria) in the study «About the Anthroponymy of Bulgarian Immigrants in the Russian Empire» presented the most common name models of the Bulgarian immigrants in the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, and also described the ways according to which the Bulgarian anthroponyms (personal, middle and family names) are adopted to the Russian name system. In the scientific work «Typological Etude: the Folk Etymologization of the Mythonyms

(Theonyms)» Olga N. Sklyarenko (Odessa, Ukraine) is talking about the folk etymologization of the mythonyms (theonyms) as an illustration of the peoples’ creative thinking, of their creative nominational potential, sometimes the same mythonyms get a different folk-etymological interpretation, and the role of the semantic reinterpretation of the mythonym, its folk etymology, may be much more important than the original «correct» etymological meaning. The report by Tatyana P. Romanova (Samara) «Samara Zoonyms in the International Project of Stefan Varhol» is devoted to the research results of the Slavic zoonyms presented in the five-volume etymological-motivational dictionary of the pan-Slavic folk zoonyms by Stefan Varhol (comparative analysis of the Polish and Russian nicknames from the Samara part of the vocabulary shows some lexical similarities and common principles in the animal nomination).

SECTION 4 «O n o m a s t i c P e r i p h e r y a n d A p e l l a t i v e - O n o m a s t i c B o r - d e r l a n d » included the scientific reports of the following authors: N.A. Maksimchuk (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Smolensk State University, Smolensk); L.A. Klimkova (Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region-2015», Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky, Arzamas); E.N. Gekkina (Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Linguistic Studies of RAS, St. Petersburg), etc.

Nina A. Maksimchuk (Smolensk) in her scientific report «Politonyms in the System of Onomastic Units: Status, Functions, Value» dealt with the role and place of politonyms in the modern onomastic system: the legitimacy of the use of the term itself is justified, the functions and the significance of politonyms are considered, the linguistic and content criteria for their evaluation are singled out. Lyudmila A. Klimkova (Arzamas) in the report together with Ksenia V. Tinyaeva (student of the Historical and Philological Faculty, National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky, Arzamas) «Onymoids in the Speech of Arzamas Students» examined a paradigm of individual names – names of classrooms in the verbal environment of a certain community – obtained by means of free association experiment concentrating on the types of nomination and word-building patterns, on the difference between these units and typical proper names. Elena N. Gekkina (St. Petersburg) in her intriguingly titled work «"Everything is very controversial here" or the toponyms of the St. Petersburg metro in the evaluations of citizens» provides an overview of metalinguistic judgments of ordinary native speakers about the specifics of the names of subway stations in Saint Petersburg on the material collected from Internet sources taking into account metalinguistic and psycholinguistic (perceptual) focus of the statements.

The scientific activity of SECTION 5 «L i t e r a r y a n d F o l k O n o m a s t i c s » was traditionally represented by a wide range of studies on symbolism, semantics and functioning of proper names in various types of discourse, which is illustrated by the scientific works of the following authors: A.A. Dyrdin (Doctor of Philological Sciences, Prof., Prof. of the Philology, Publishing and Editing Department, Ulyanovsk State Technical University, Ulyanovsk); B.R. Kosanović (Ph.D., Prof., Novi-Sad University, Novi Sad, Serbia); O.V. Vrublevskaia (Candidate of Philological Sciences, A.P., Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Volgograd); N.V. Merkulova (Candidate of Philological Sciences, A.P., Voronezh State Technical University, Voronezh); K.S. Fedotova (postgraduate student, Donetsk National University, Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic) and many others.

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Alexander A. Dyrdin (Ulyanovsk) in the scientific report «Etymology of Names and Surnames in "The Juvenile Sea" of Andrey Platonov» having considered the etymology of personal names and surnames in the story singled out several ways of naming the characters, expressed a hypothesis of that creation of proper names by Platonov has the source not only in national nominal typology, but also in reality. Bogdan R. Kosanović (Novi Sad, Serbia) in the article

«Onomastics of the Pushkin’s collection "The Poems of Western Slavs" and its Serbian Equivalents» discussed the problem of onymization, first of all of anthroponyms, from the biggest Pushkin’s cycle - "The Poems of Western Slavs" (1834) doing an analysis from the etymology point of view and stylistic function of fabula and form, comparing them with the French original ("La Guzla" by P. Мériméе) and their translations to Serbian language (М. Pavloviћ) as well as translations of the Pushkin’s cycle into the Serbian language carried out in the Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin (edited by M. Рavić), to conclude, the author stresses that the onomastics of "The Poems of Western Slavs" is a result of the close interest of the Russian poet for the Serbs and the Serbian history and culture. Oksana V. Vrublevskaia (Volgograd) in the scientific report «Proper Names in the Context of Postmodernism» deals with tendencies of using an onomastic play on words, caused by impact of the aesthetics of postmodernism: an onomastic play on words is derived from deconstruction of a proper name or its contextual background, also from revitalization of the inner part of a name and from involving onyms in various puns. In the scientific article «Synergic Effect of Aesthetic Onyms in the Characterization of Characters (based on the key onyms of the novel «Sentimental Education» by G. Flaubert)»

Nadezhda V. Merkulova (Voronezh) examines the role of aesthetic onyms in the characterization of the key characters in the novel «Sentimental Education» by G. Flaubert taking into account the synergic effect inherent in the proper names within fiction, which implies the disclosure of their meaning at various levels of interpretation which serves to revealing the «fan subtext» of aesthetic onyms (social, philosophical, religious, etc.). The scientific report «Revisiting the Title to the Article for Poetonyms Dictionary: Proper Name and Poetical Nomination» by Ksenia S. Fedotova (Donetsk, DNR) is devoted to the issue of choosing a title for the poetonyms dictionary based on describing some essential differences of onyms and poetonyms due to dichotomies: reality – imaginary, language – speech; units which can be recognized as a title for dictionary of poetonyms have been noticed.

Within the framework of SECTION 6 «O n o m a s t i c s a n d O n o m a s t i c L o c a l

A.U. Tikhonova (Ulyanovsk) «Onomastic Local Lore at School and University: Problems and Prospects»; Senior Lecturer, Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gubkin E.V. Ermakova (Moscow) «Toponymic Vocabulary at the Lessons of Russian as a Foreign Language: Linguistic and Cultural Review»; teacher of the Russian language and literature, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation N.P. Plotinina (Ulyanovsk) « The Study of Onomastics at the Lessons of the Russian Language as a Mean of Forming Moral and Patriotic Values of Students» and a number of others.

Thus, the XVI International Scientific Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region» united the extensive and multifaceted problems of researches on proper names. The geographical scale of the scientific event is impressive: 15 foreign countries: Austria (Vienna), Bulgaria (Burgas), Mongolia (Ulan Bator), Poland (Szczecin, Bydgoszcz), Serbia (Novi Sad), Slovakia (Bratislava), Czech Republic (Opava) and others; 9 republics of the Russian Federation: Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Karelia, Mariy-El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), Tatarstan, Udmurtia; more than 50 cities and small settlements of Russia: Arzamas, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Makhachkala, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Surgut, Tver, Ulyanovsk, Ufa, Chita, Yakutsk and many others.

XVI International Scientific Conference «Onomastics of the Volga Region», dedicated to the 50-th anniversary of the first Volga Region onomastic conference and the memory of its

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organizer V.A. Nikonov, held in Ulyanovsk, September 20-23, 2017, undoubtedly became a kind of milestone in the history of modern onomastics, as well as a resonant event in the philological environment of Russia and the countries of near and far abroad. A vivid interest to the scientific event from the side of numerous participants attests the important role of the scientific project «Onomastics of the Volga Region» both for onomatologists and for a wide range of the public.

PhD (in Philology), Docent,

Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department,

Voronezh State Technical University

N.V. Merkulova

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