Keyword: «toponym»

In the article the author examines the connection between military toponymics and the language personality of a serviceman as a reflection of the linguistic picture of the world of military society. A brief history of study and military-political preconditions for the nomination of the inner-city objects in Moscow are given, an associative experiment is described. The author gives a quantitative and qualitative description of the most frequent urbanisms in the semantic field of «war». As a result of the study, a conclusion is drawn about the role of toponyms associated with the military society in the formation and development of the language personality of the Russian serviceman. The material of the study can be used both in military education and in the optional course of onomastics in a civilian university.

The article discusses one of the types of toponyms – urbanonyms, which are the names of intra-city topographic objects, classifies street names by semantics, characterizes street names by structure and considers approaches to the study of street names.

The article is devoted to the study of toponyms in the Bulun village of the Tatta ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Many of the geographical names under consideration have not previously been studied and recorded in toponymic dictionaries. The purpose of the article is to characterize hydronyms, oikonyms, agroonyms, insulonyms found on the territory of the settlement, to determine their lexical meaning and source language. As a result, the identified toponyms were divided into classes and analyzed using explanatory dictionaries and other literature on toponymy.