The article deals with the early period of creative work of the great Russian writer Nikolay Leskov and the medical topic of his articles in Kiev newspaper “Modern Medicine” in 1860. It is specially noted that Leskov is not only an original outstanding writer but also a talented and bold journalist. In his early articles one can see the features of the literary style of the future master of a word. The article states the social focus of N. Leskov’s early works and the realism - how the writer followed N. Gogol’s and M. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s writing traditions.

The article is devoted to insufficiently studied aspect of V. Shalamov’s creativity. It is proved that Shalamov’s works are a reflected perception of life as a wholeness, and that leads to quite versatile and harmonious picture of the world in Shalamov’s poetry. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that as the basis of his creativity Shalamov considered not only his personally endured painful experience, but also life itself with its organic flow. It is noted that in Shalamov’s worldview very important role is played by the idea of opposition of life itself and mechanical schematics in any of its forms. The article builds a number of parallels with Pasternak’s creativity: reveals the similarities and differences in worldview of the two poets, and explains Shalamov’s important idea that not only life determines the course of creativity, but creativity influences the life.

The article contributes to the revival of the name of the forgotten writer Ilya Dmitrievich Strelskiy’s (1881-1938), provides the basis for understanding of his creative biography and education in the context of social circumstances. Strelskiy actively participated in the literary life of Kursk in 1910-1920s. He was the editor of «Kursk Theatre» magazine (1915-1916), the first weekly art-illustrated edition in the city.

The article deals with the reflection of the revolutionary epoch of Russian history in works of I. Bunin and the transfer of writer’s insight into the film «Sunstroke» by N. Mikhalkov. Connecting Bunin’s heritage «Sunstroke» with the documentary notes «Cursed Days», Mikhalkov places them in the context of religious and philosophical thoughts of the era. The director not only conveys Bunin’s artistic vision but also in his own way interprets his characteristic understanding of the specifics of historical development of Russia and the Russian identity.

There is a strong claim among scientists that Vladimir Solovyov’s ideology influenced Dostoevsky. Yet, the real facts prove exactly the opposite: Dostoevsky had an impact on Solovyov through journalism, novels and private talks. A value system the philosopher borrowed from the writer appears to be Slavophilic. As he changed his mind dramatically after Dostoevsky’s death, Solovyov keeps on following Slavophils’ outline, although replaces the notions and tries to bring westernized, philocatholic ideology in the teaching. After facing а negative reaction, Solovyov brakes with “old” Slavophilism and criticizes it. Original Solovyov’s theses can’t be found in Dostoevsky’s writings.

The article examines the list of female writers included by Nikolai Novikov into the first in Russian literature history dictionary writers - “Opyt Istoricheskogo Slovaria o Rossiiskikh Pisate-liakh” (1772). Among the key issues addressed in the article is the definition of the ideological base that allowed Novikov to include them on an equal footing with male writers and thereby establish a tradition for future works of this kind. Considerable attention is paid to the ideological convergence, formed in 1772 between Novikov and Catherine II, which obtained an expression in the “Opyt Istoricheskogo Slovaria o Rossiiskikh Pisateliakh”. We also consider the sources of information used by the Novikov and their role in the selection of specific female writers.

The research subject of the present article is neo-acmeism as an understudied cultural paradigm of the 20th century, its history and «semantic poetics» as its philosophical «code». The article illustrates the particular features of neo-acmeism in terms of intra-text communication with neo-classicism, symbolism, and acmeism. The author also analyzes the foundation, conception, poetics of post-realism and neo-classicism and «synchronous-reminiscent chronotope» that creates the «polyphonic monologue» in mythology. Neo-acmeism contains the mental code of Russian culture which within the framework of one literary movement unites poets that may seem absolutely different.

When the novel «Fathers and Sons» by Turgenev was just about to see the light the overall critics surrounded it. The feedback about the novel was both positive and negative. The main reason for the novel being in the spotlight and attracting a huge attention of readers was putting the conflict between the two generations to the foreground. A famous critic Markovich had an original opinion about the Turgenev’s main hero Bazarov who represented a new generation in the novel. Apart from that, Markovich considered the influence of Bazarov’s ideas on young people. Thoughts and opinions of Markovich have a great importance as they give nonstandard answers to such questions as: is Bazarov a real revolutionist? What is the source of his nihilistic attitude? Did his views have any influence on the younger generation?

The paper discusses the relationship between the characteristics of one-member compound definite-personal sentences and their use in different is functional-semantic text types - narration, description, discussion. It is revealed that specifics of definite-personal sentences to a greater extent corresponds to functional-semantic features of text-narration and text-discussion, and to a lesser extent to features of the text-description. This conclusion us supported by observing the frequency of the use of the considered sentences in narration, description and discussion.

The article discusses the problem of expression of semantic category of animateness-inanimateness with morphological, lexical and word-formation means, it experiments with modeling the structure word-formation segment of functional-semantic field of animateness-inanimateness in the modern Russian language. In the center of this segment of the analyzed functional-semantic field there are substantive word-formation types, marked by animateness-inanimateness. The periphery of segment is formed in a similar manner by marked word-\formation attributive types of words - adjectives and verbs.

The article discusses the origins of the names of two ancient cities of the 12th century: Zaroy and Zarub. Apart from these cities the article mentions other extinct ancient Russian towns which names are preserved in the chronicles. The basic hypothesis of the origin of these names and a brief historical information about them are given. Comparing the given in the article hypothesis of these ancient cities names origin, the author concludes that a complete review of the linguistic material, engaging historical, archaeological, geographical information helped to some extent in establishing the whereabouts of these cities and to identify the meaning of their names.

In the article, expressive word-formation means in the proper names of Uriy Buida’s novels are reviewed and their role in creation of the anthroponyms is described. It provides the classification of these means by their stylistic coloring and emotional and estimation semantics. The groups of the anthroponyms are distinguished by their typical expressive word-formation means. The proper names used in Uriy Buida’s novels, are one of the typical and effective means of description the features of the characters: their appearances, their tempers, their behavior and relationships. The occasional anthroponyms are the bright feature of Uriy Buida’s idiostyle.

This article is devoted to describing syntagmatics of terminological vocabulary as a means of verbalization for categories and concepts of legal discourse. It considers the semantical and grammatical aspects of terminological units as nominating basic ideas of the Information Law Concept through their specific compatibility. Using the distribution analysis certain regularities are found for selecting contextual partners of simple and composite terms as well as terminological word combinations constructed from single word terms. Under study are basic schemes for forming valence of terminological units in the Russian legal texts.

The article analyzes foreign words, first of all, terms used in modern newspaper texts in different functions that we identified in the process of studying newspaper text. The research is based on the linguistic material extracted from the following newspapers: «Komsomolskaya Pravda», «Moya Semya», «Moskovsky Komsomolets». It demonstrates the basic features of borrowed words: nominative, communicative, significative, definitive, cognitive, emotional and expressive. The article discusses the methods of the replacement of the definition of a term: description, comparison.