The article examines a significant lexical layer of the Stishnoy Prologue which is the vocabulary of artifact names (i. e. ‘objects made by man’). The revealed vocabulary includes 23 thematic groups. Intra-word and inter-word paradigmatic relations were analyzed in the group of artifact nominations. The purpose of our study is a comprehensive analysis of the names of artifacts in the Stishnoy Prologue. An analysis of the functional features of the artifact names showed that the genre of the text presented in the Stishnoy Prologue defines the frequency of use of the analyzed lex emes. Analysis of the artifact names in the Stishnoy Prologue reveals that the group of such lexemes is quite diverse and includes not only names of objects of worship and church life and instruments of torture, but also units denoting everyday vocabulary such as names of jewelry, objects of crafts, etc. The frequency of use of such lexemes in the text of the manuscript and their semantic connections within and outside of the group indicate that the units belong to the active vocabulary of the Church Slavonic language of the 15th century.

This article presents main arguments and preliminary information concerning features of the early migration dialect of the Vologda-Vyatka group of the Northern Russian dialect, primarily the vocabulary specificity of Loyma village dialect (Priluzsky district of the Komi Republic). The composition and content of the Loyma Dictionary reflect those traits. As an illustration, this paper presents several original dictionary entries of the gizaurus digital frame-thesaurus version of the Loyma Dictionary. The article briefly describes the main features and fundamental differences of the Loyma dialect from similar ones and the principles of including dialect materials in the dictionary. Creating the Dictionary of Loyma village Russian dialect presents the future possibility to include information about the lexical composition of the territorial (local) version of the early resettlement Russian dialect of the Vologda-Vyatka group of the Northern Russian dialect in the Dialectological Fund of the Russian language and in the general structure of the basic academic national dictionary fund of the Russian language.

Purpose. The article is devoted to the study of Bashkir toponyms formed on the basis of phytonyms. The main objective is to demonstrate phytotoponyms and determine the laws of their nomination.

Results. The authors describe models for the formation of toponyms derived from plant names and conduct a comparative analysis of Bashkir phytotoponyms with onomastic materials of other Turkic languages. Of the 10,000 Bashkir geographical names recorded, phytonyms are found in about 4 % of toponyms. They contain 65 names of plants, including 16 names of trees, 16 names of shrubs and fruit trees, 8 names of aquatic plants, 13 names of edible wild herbs, 13 names of other plants used for domestic purposes in everyday life, agricultural crops, etc.

Conclusion. The authors of the article emphasize that phytotoponyms ascertain, register the location, a certain position of the plant and belong to the secondary nomination, as well as the fact that many phytotoponyms carry socially significant cultural and historical information about the world, and in ancient times they would act as a natural landmark in space. Systematization of the collected material reveals the features of the vegetation cover and areal flora of Southern Urals and Trans-Urals.

The paper is devoted to identifying the features of the mythologization of Altai place names. An ethnolinguistic approach to the subject of research using the methods of motivational and contextual analysis allowed to reveal the features of mythologized toponyms in Altai language and folklore. For toponyms that contain myths in their internal form mythologization occurs on the basis of lexical motivation which is also reinforced by the mythological text. Place names that do not contain myths in their internal form have only a mythological context. In the mythologization of toponyms an important role is played by the plots and motives known in world folklore about the flood, glaciation on the earth and the disappearance of some species of the animal world, the end of the world, theophany, and the struggle of man with a monster.

Purpose. The article discusses the concepts of BIG BROTHER / LITTLE SISTER (UBAY / BALYS) in order to identify the features of representation of these concepts in the Yakut heroic epic olonkho and to establish the semantic content of these concepts, to determine their cultural and national specifics. Because, firstly, in a traditional family, as a unit of society, the relations of children are of great importance, as blood relatives they are the successors of the clan. Secondly, despite the global technocratic development, interest in and appeal to traditional values is growing in society, because family ties and family relations form self-organization and self-regulation of a person in society. Thirdly, due to the lack of study of these concepts in the Yakut epic texts.

Results. Within the framework of the conceptual analysis, the method of continuous sampling was used to collect examples from epic texts; component analysis to characterize the conceptual constituent of the word; a method of contextual analysis which provides an opportunity to identify different meanings and shades of meanings of the studied concepts in the context of epic texts. In the examples considered, the lexemes ubay and balys and their various detonates represent their dictionary definitions, that is they designate an elder man relative and a younger woman relative.

Conclusion. The result of the performed analysis shows that the concepts of BIG BROTHER / LITTLE SISTER are represented in the olonkho texts by various lexemes and phrases that have deep connotative meanings and reflect traditional family relationships between elder brothers and younger sisters among the Yakut people.

The present study aimed to explore pause types and their fillers in Russian and Chinese native speech compared to the speech of Chinese bilinguals speaking Russian with a focus on universal and language-specific patterns. An acoustic study of 8 subjects has been performed: 4 Russian males speaking Russian, and 4 Chinese males speaking both Chinese and Russian. Acoustic measurements were performed using PRAAT and included pause count, pause duration, pitch direction, vocalic fillers formant values, and their duration. Descriptive statistics were used to determine count, mean, minimal, and maximal values. The results demonstrate that first, silent and filled pauses were used by all subjects with the preference for the silent pause strategy. For all Chinese subjects, the pause rate was considerably higher in native speech than in non-native Russian speech. Second, the universal pause fillers were [a]-like, [am]-like, and [m]-like ones. Simple fillers like [ɤ], [o] were language-specific for Chinese subjects. Another language-specific feature was the wide use of vowel groups by Chinese subjects. Finally, vowel + nasal (velar and forelingual) sequences like [ɤŋ] were language-specific for Chinese subjects.

The significant role of the images and the situations of the play by Griboyedov in the novel “The Adolescent” are often noted by Dostoevsky scholars. The novel and the play are connected by the common conflict of reason and feeling. The image of a misanthrope represented by the figure of Chatsky is very important for the novel “The Adolescent.”

In the plots of the compared works rumors of madness play an important role. This gossip is combined with a motive of discovering a secret (or “rumor”). Fear of the discovery of a secret is amplified by the theme of espionage, eavesdropping in the novel by Dostoevsky. The importance of the situation of revealing something intimate for “Woe from Wit” and “The Adolescent” indicates the complexity and duality of depicted reality. A theme of illusions initially enthralling characters unifies the play and the novel. It is the theme of “happy ignorance.”

The idea of non-inclusiveness and irrationality of life is common for both the play “Woe from Wit” and the novel by Dostoevsky.

The theme of woe from wit is global, and it is in line with ancient and influential sentimental tradition not only for Russian but also for world literature

Purpose. The article is devoted to testing the literary intuition of A. P. Chudakov regarding the polyphony of Chekhov’s story “The Student” – the sound of Renan's position and the canonical religious one in it. The study uses intertextual, biographical, and structural analysis methods.

Results. The autobiographical work of Renan tells how twenty-two-year-old Renan, a student of the Paris seminary, while on vacation in his hometown in remote Brittany, decides to leave traditional Christianity. Projections of these biographical details are found in Chekhov’s favorite short story. The article deals with the stylistic and substantive references of the “Gospel of Velikopolsky” with the world-famous “Life of Jesus”. The poetics of ambiguity and understatement in the finale of the story is subordinated to the task of covertly showing the unorthodox way of thinking of the hero of the story. It is quite possible that the story written in 1894 is Chekhov’s requiem for Renan, who died two years earlier.

Conclusion. We believe that paying attention to the personality and work of the French writer, philosopher and historian can be very productive, make a tangible contribution to the study of the artistic world of Chekhov.

Purpose. The article is devoted to the story “Kaigorodov’s Line” by B. М. Yulsky, a writer of the Far Eastern emigration. The relevance of the work is determined by the increased interest in the work of Russian writers, who created their works outside of their homeland, but, nevertheless, reflected the traditions of Russian literature, as well as absorbed the culture of the environment. The purpose of the article is to consider the features of ekphrasis in Yulsky’s story “Kaigorodov’s Line”, to identify its functions.

Results. The methodological basis of the article is determined by the unity of the historical-literary, comparative and structural approaches. The article analyzes the intertextual typological echoes with I. Bunin and A. Grin’s stories. In the texts of the writers of the first half of the 20th century, the plot is centered on an artist who has come through the trials of life and who is craving to create a masterpiece. The ekphrasis in Yulsky’s story has a plot-forming function. It is noted that the text contains two ekphrasises: first, the artist draws a picture in his imagination, and the second one is his creation, as a reflection of the soul, tormented by his difficult fate.

Conclusion. It is concluded that the ekphrasis in Yulsky’s work is not only a separate description of the image in the text. The picture turns the course of events and defines the character’s fate. The ekphrasis in the story “Kaigorodov’s Line” is associated with the motive of madness and death.

Purpose. The article aims to outline the process of modern prose's search for the heroine of the time, to show how the ideas about the woman, her role and purpose have changed in Russian literature of the second half of the 20th –21st century.

Results. The article presents an analysis of the genecratic myth – the myth of the exceptional power and authority that women possess and that allow them to become the center of the social and moral life of society; it traces the change of the type of warrior-woman and protector: from texts of traditionalists to the works of the “inverted generation” and authors of “new realism”. Special attention is paid to the typology of the feminine in the iconic novel of V. Makanin “Underground or Hero of Our Time” (1998), which sums up a peculiar result of the literary search of the bygone century. The author, basing upon the poetics of Gogol and Dostoevsky, offers his typology of the feminine, the extreme positions of which are symbolized by the images of “Baba with a cushion” – a detached, ironic reading of the classical type of “girl embroidering”, the “hearth-keeper”, and the “Aphrodite of the square”, marked by trickster features.

Conclusion. We can distinguish the image of the patriarchal woman, in which the functions of wife and mother are defined. This type is far from being homogeneous, here we can distinguish the image of the old woman with her inherent features of sacrifice, active mercy, humility. The image of the “Baba with a pillow”, brought out in V. Makanin’s famous novel “Underground…”. The image of an intellectual, a businesswoman who ignores the laws of being, striving for the most comfortable, easy life, in the scenario of which mercy, sacrifice, and death do not fit. The image of the “Aphrodite of the Square”, a female-trickster whose underground existence is self-sufficient and self-valuable. The description of the night butterflies is given in contrast to the angelic figures. In the images of the angels, the supraworldliness, the functions of mercy, sacrifice, and testimony are brought to the forefront. The emphasis on the trickster nature of the central characters of the text is dictated by the peculiarities of the frontier time – chaotic, dangerous, unpredictable, in which the trickster hero proves to be the most viable.

Purpose. The aim of the article is to investigate the author's interpretation of “patience” concept, other key categories and images of Christianity in M. Elizarov’s novel “The Librarian”.

Results. The plot of “The Librarian” is based on the myth “USSR, the golden age” and on the complex of Christian ideas. It is most productive to consider “The Librarian” within the framework of the myth-making tendency, when the author continues to cultivate a myth created in a fictional work in his interviews and journalism. The leading artistic task of the author is an attempt to update the Christian doctrine through a synthesis with communist ideology. In the novel, the patience category is endowed with both Christian meanings (“the consolation of the suffering”) and Soviet militaristic sense. M. Elizarov enters into a dialogue with the mass consciousness since it becomes the main consumer of any myth, including the myth created by the author of “The Librarian”. In the novel, the contexts of archaic myth, folklore and criminal subculture, the interest in which is typical for modern mass society, arise in the patience motive’s implementation. The author's understanding of patience, that is close to the Christian canon, is found in Alexei Vyazintsev’s interpretation of the soteriological mission. The motive of the alone hero’s reading of “The Incessant Psalter” in an underground bunker appeals to schema practice. However, in reality, Elizarov creates an unconscious schema practice parody.

Conclusion. In M. Elizarov’s novel “The Librarian”, the ideas about the Christian feat of patience are passed through the prism of mass consciousness, that leads to literalization, simplification and emasculation of highly spiritual Christian meanings.

In the period from September 23 to 25 in Abakan (the Republic of Khakassia), the 8th International Scientific Conference “Peoples and Cultures of the Sayan-Altai and Bordering Territories”, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the discovery of sites of the Yenisei script and to the Year of Khakass epic in the Republic of Khakassia was held. Significant objects of Old Turkic writing system and folklore heritage of this region are of particular interest to the scientific community. In this regard, it is important to highlight the results of the scientific event. The main purpose of the event was interaction, exchange of experience and results of scientific research in the field of humanities, preservation and study of monuments of writing and folklore. The conference was attended by more than 130 scientists from Mongolia, Japan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Finland, and Russia. The work was carried out in 5 sections, 1 round table devoted to relevant issues of archaeology of Southern Siberia and Central Asia. The conference showed the great importance of ethnic culture, which occupies one of the leading places in the study of historical and cultural heritage of a particular people, its role in the world community.