The section publishes of Professor N. Kondrashov’s articles from different years. The presented materials show the interest of the scientist in the actual problems of Slavistics and Humanities: in history and theory of science, linguistic personology, key issues of philological education, language purism, etc. In addition to the useful historical and cultural information, the works allow entering the circle of ideas and creative searches of N. Kondrashov. They contain the author’s engaging assessments and observations. These materials can be used in teaching University courses “Introduction to linguistics,” “Introduction to Slavic Philology,” “History of linguistic teachings,” “General linguistics,” etc.

The article analyzes the well-known textbook of professor N. Kondrashov “History of Linguistics,” published for the first time in 1979, and that became one of the leading textbooks of this discipline in pedagogical schools and classical universities. It is emphasized that N. Kondrashov’s book was distinguished by the originality of assessments and the bold generalizations. It objectively showed the development of world linguistic thought from the ancient civilizations until the second half of the 20th century. The value of the book is also in the fact that the author didn’t go past the analysis of some controversial issues of linguistic theory and practice: the tradition Port-Royal “Grammar” in the Russian linguistics of the 19th century, the innovation of the Prague School, the discussions in Soviet linguistics of 1930-1950s., etc. The book also presents brief essays on the methodology of linguistics, the portraits of Russian and foreign linguists. The analysis of the textbook by N. Kondrashov entered the general cultural background linguistic sсientific searchings and problems of Soviet linguistics in the last third of the 20th century.

The article is written in the genre of “portraits of linguists” and continues the traditions of historiography laid down by N. Kondrashov. The author presents the personality and work of philologist Hermann Günther Grassmann and three areas of application of his scientific potential: comparative studies, acoustics, and lexicography. Special attention is paid to his dictionary work - „Wörterbuch zum Rigveda“ in light of the influence on his work of the achievements of the Russian philologist O. Böhtlingk; and his dictionary „Sanskrit-Wörterbuch“.

The article is devoted to the analysis of Slovak-Russian lexical isoglosses. Using materials of “The Slavic linguistic atlas”, the author believes that the general Slavic perspective is essential to understanding the true nature of the Slovak-Russian areal relations. It allows figuring out the following problem: which lexical parallels reflect and continue the relationship of the original system, and which indicate uneven implementation of the system of relations inherited from the Proto-Slavic era.

The lexicographic representation of bribery and the semantic properties of its verbal signs are investigated. It is established that there is no word “bribe” in the synonymic dictionaries of the Soviet period; however, Russian synonymic dictionaries make it possible to build a rather long series of lexical units that convey the concept of official bribery, the dominant of which is the word “bribe.” In modern speech, lexical units that convey the meaning of official bribery differ in a number of additional characteristics. Bribery is marked by the powerful position of its beneficiary; the distinctive feature of a bribe being illegal for both of its participants. The “vector” nature of a bribe as an indication of the participant from whom its initiative emanates, allows to separate the bribery from extortion, however, the feature of preliminary conspiracy between the bribe participants, which was once present in the meaning of the word “posul”, and the feature of observance-violation of duty, which was once present in the meaning of the words “mzdoimstvo” and “lihoimstvo”, in the minds of speakers of modern Russian, no longer exist.

The article deals with the problem of the existence of the Russian language at the end of the 20th century against the background of socio-cultural and political changes in society. The author identifies three main lexical cycles in the formation of the communicative portrait of the epoch. The change in the appearance of the language is associated with the processes that have received the greatest development in the 20th century: coding and codification; recoding - decodification - new codification, etc. The increased role of the administrative-territorial sub-paradigm of the Russian language in the creation of new speech models is noted. The author emphasizes that the 20th century influenced the change of language sign. The article deals with the problem of the sociolinguistic status of the Russian language in the pre-revolutionary period in the Soviet and post-Soviet times. The author says about the loss of the position of the Russian language at the end of the 20th century. Its role in the trance-ethnic space of post-Soviet Russia is noted. The author makes conclusions about the prospects of using the Russian language in Western Europe.

The article considers nouns with the most common Nom.Sing. form. It has been established: 1) these words are united with the semantics of the independent actor, 2) the ratio of form Nom.Sing. indicates the extent of this independence, 3) idiomatic and grammatically related use of forms Nom.Sing. should be excluded before semantic interpretation of the words, 4) most of the words with dominant Nom.Sing. - these are singularoids with the extralinguistic motivation of the predominance of singular forms, 6) the boundary between singularoids and “normal” words can be considered 85% of the uses falling on singular forms.

The article presents facts about the epistolary legacy of Olaf Broch, the first professor of Slavic languages of the University of Oslo. One of the interests of N. Kondrashov was the study of the history of Slavistics and the works of renowned scholars at the beginning of the last century. This was the period when the excellent works of the Norwegian scholar were published in Russia, works that are still fundamental in the study of the phonetics of Slavic languages. However, for political reasons, N. Kondrashov could not mention Olaf Broch, which explains the enforced lacuna his account of the history of Slavic studies. To point out this lacuna is equally essential for the history of Slavic studies as for the correct evaluation of the ideas and initiatives found in the works of N. Kondrashov.

The article analyzes the works by N. Kondrashov on the Slovak language and Slovak studies in general, dedicated to the problems of dialectology, the history of literary language, as well as the activities of prominent Slavists. The importance of these works for Slovak studies is emphasized. The author draws attention to the originality and novelty of general linguistic problems of N. Kondrashov’s works. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of his dissertations “The category of personality in the Slovak language” and “The emergence and initial stage of development of the Slovak literary language,” which to date are unsurpassed in their field.

The article gives an analytical review of one of the first detailed University textbooks on the course “General linguistics” (1972-1974), created by Professor N. Kondrashov. It tells about the stages of preparation of the scholar to collect materials and writing this book, his rich philological and life practice, which allowed to correct description of the significant milestones in the history of world linguistics, since the era of ancient Indian grammatical tradition and completing descriptive linguistics in the United States, new directions in linguistics of the second half of the 20th century and the stages of development of Soviet science. For the first time, the textbook deals in detail with the ideas of the Prague linguistic school. The article emphasizes that N. A. Kondrashov gave a competent analysis of the main linguistic concepts: the essence of language; language and thinking; internal structure of language; language and society; language and its development, etc. Attention is drawn to the fact that with the well-known Soviet standard and censored nature of such works, the course of lectures “General linguistics” contained exciting author’s findings and characteristics and generally gave an objective idea of the history, theory, and methodology of linguistics.

The article deals with the episodes of life and career of Professor Nikolay Kondrashov (1919-1995), his contribution to the development of domestic and foreign Slavistics. The connections of the scientist with foreign Slavists, his participation in slavistic activity in Russia, and abroad are analyzed. The works of N. Kondrashov and their role in the development of linguistic problems are considered.

During wartime, people far away from theatres of operation are anxious to receive news from the front. The present article deals with Swedish newspaper reports on the Great Northern War (1700-1721), a conflict in which an alliance consisting of Russia, Denmark, and Saxony-Poland faced Sweden and her allies, the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp and, between 1710 and 1713, the Ottoman Empire. The article’s main focus rests on the reproduction of Russian personal names and toponyms in what was effectively Sweden’s sole existing newspaper during the period Ordinarie Stockholmiske Post-Tijdender. The publication was closely monitored by the state. The present investigation, which is based on an analysis of the entire body of preserved newspaper texts, offers new insights into onomastic aspects of the studied materials. These findings constitute important indicators of Russo-Swedish contacts during wartime and show the knowledge of Russian outside Russia during the eighteenth century.

The article presents an analysis of complex cases in “Materials for the Dictionary of Old Russian,” created by I. Sreznevsky, indicated by a question mark. The author describes the decisions taken to identify unknown information in the 29th issue of the “Dictionary of Russian language 11-17th centuries”. Restored gaps help historians of language, lexicographers to use wisely dictionary articles in research, and critically evaluate the achievements of the past. The article demonstrates the practical application of modern methods of linguistic analysis in controversial issues solving in the field of theory and practice of lexicography.

The scientific discourse in the 21st century contains the problems of the functioning of languages in multiethnic communities, the roles of imported ones, i.e. imported idioms in the language situation (LS) of the countries. Such imported languages, which develop in several areas, represent the macrosystem as a set of options, the fate of which depends on many factors. In countries with an external language that inevitably comes into conflict or competition with local languages, LS is most difficult to form. The pluricentric approach involves the LS consideration both as the life of a unified, dispersed language, and as the situation of imported and vernacular languages coexistence, a comparison of existence all language forms in the mainland and out of its environment.

The article considers a brief study of crucial concepts of history in various scientific disciplines (history, linguistics, sociology, chemistry, etc.). The author gives a detailed analysis of the Slavic comparative lexicography key concepts (“comparison,” “juxtaposition,” “contraposition,” “estimation,” “system,” “invariant / invariance,” “variation,” “equivalence,” “contrast,” “identity,” “distinction,” “full/incomplete correspondence,” “language-standard,” etc.). The interconnection of these critical concepts with various areas of Slavic languages has been shown.

The etymology of the noun baidak [river boat, barge] is somewhat obscure. The purpose of the article is to trace the etymology of the lexeme included in its title. It is absent from the literary language. We think that baidak meaning ‘river boat/river vessel’ is related to the verb idti [to go]. We can divide this noun into prefix ba-, stem -id-, and suffix -ak. Step by step, citing examples, we prove that these morphemes could exist in the Russian language. Thus the morphological and semantic analysis with elements of comparative research of the noun baidak helps us to clarify its etymology. The theoretical value of the results of research is an opportunity to use them when studying other regional nominations. Their practical value lies in the linguistic experiment that helped us define the etymology of this dialect word and draw the attention of other scholars to the unique cultural landscape of the language.

Memories and philological sketches of students, learners, graduates, and colleagues of the famous slavist professor N. Kondrashov talk about interesting facts from the personal and scientific biography of a linguist, associated with our university in 1960-1990s. The authors of these memoirs - teachers, university workers, former and current employees of the Moscow Regional State University and other institutions from different cities of Russia and abroad - informally, with almost artistic lyricism and at the same time documentary reliability, reveal the traits, actions and rare facts from the biography of N. Kondrashov, show his unusual linguistic personality as a fantastic lecturer, mentor, friend. Fragments of the scientist’s letters, stories about meetings, and conversations with him are also published in the collection. Live philological portrait of the slavist augmented almost cinematic scenes, reprises, characteristic humor and language charm of N. Kondrashov - witness the contradictory linguistic “century of hopes and wanderings” in science and inimitable educator, thinker, burning high in the service of authentic traditions of studies in Slavistics and inform its spirit to several generations of undergraduate and graduate students.

Reminiscences of a former graduate student of Professor N. Kondrashov D. Arkharova is published here for the first time. The memoirs recreate the living image of the teacher not only as a supervisor, but also as an extraordinary person who absorbed the dignity and spirit of the controversial era of the 20th century. In these memoirs, the characteristics of the teacher, his human relation to young researchers is shown clearly and vividly. A portrait of the scientist complement the fragments of the living dialogues with him, figurative cues and special Kondrashov’s phraseology, makes him stand out in the environment of University teachers.

In the memoirs of the years of study in graduate school, the author draws the image of the supervisor Professor N. Kondrashov from an unusual side - as a caring father, strict and wise mentor, intercessor and even Savior. The facts of the biography of Slavist complemented by rare personal details of communication included in the context of scientific research and change of ideological priorities in society. The figure of N. Kondrashov is shown with subtle lyricism and reverence for his feat - to teach people not only science but also life. In many fragments of the narrative appear unknown even to a close circle of people properties of character and linguistic personality of the fantastic teacher and philologist.

The article is devoted to the memories of well-known slavicist N. Kondrashov. The role of this researcher in studying the historiography of linguistics and teacher training activities is emphasized. The author notes the importance of the scientist in the formation of philological thinking among students and the development of a critical view of the history of linguistic science. The memoirs contain rare details of the author’s biography associated with her younger years of the personality of Professor N. Kondrashov. Reminiscences also include exciting episodes of student chronicles of N. Krupskaya Moscow Regional State Institute, presents details of psychological portrait of a teacher of the classical school of Slavonic studies, gives almost documentary information about the cultural and social life of the country in 1970-1980s.

Memories of Professor N. Kondrashov immerse into the atmosphere of the social and cultural life of the country in the late 1980s - early 1990s, talk about the philological life of the time and draw a living portrait of the Slavist through the eyes of a post-graduate. The figure of the famous linguist is shown from an unusual side: as a teacher of a rare gift, a man of strict, strong-willed character, wise and ironic, who had the most comprehensive knowledge in the history of linguistic sciences. The author tells about episodes of acquaintance and communication with N. Kondrashov, restores the accurate picture of the dialogues and reflections of the scientist about new phenomena in the social life of the country, emphasizes his exceptional human qualities.

The memoirs reveal the multifaceted personality of Professor N. Kondrashov. The author tells about the acquaintance with the scientist and her first steps in Philology, speaks about his rare qualities as a supervisor, notes unknown features from the biography of the Slavist. Conversations with N. Kondrashov, passed in the memoirs almost factual accuracy, highlight the extraordinary properties of a language personality of a teacher: the aphoristic nature, deliberately blunt irony, a desire to help the student and cheer her up with jokes, high of teacher’s dignity replicas and dialogues, the moral power of the word.

Memories show professor N. Kondrashov as master of a particular linguistic genre of “history in faces.” Under the influence of his work, exciting and truthful documentary stories from the public life of the country came to life at lectures. The author does not hide the delight of N. Kondrashov’s pedagogical talent, who used the techniques of dramatic art in his classes and personal conversations. The notes also describe unknown episodes from the biography of the scientist of the late 1940s, his passion for the language of Esperanto under the ideological umbrella of the state, which almost led to a tragedy. The lyrical and emotional tone of memories draws an extraordinary personality N. Kondrashov in the circle of training sessions of the 1980s.

The article tells about the personality of the famous Slavist, doctor of Philology Professor of MOPI- MPU-MRSU N. Kondrashov. The author gives a psycholinguistic portrait of the scientist in the context of the teaching and student life of the late 1970s, gives a specific “Kondrashov-like” expressions, displays versatile language personality of a teacher and philologist. It is Indicative for the history of Humanities presented in the memoirs of “notes on the margins” of the lectures of the scientist, which revealed the historical truth of the 20th century in the faces, events, conflicts, discoveries, and achievements. Special attention is paid to the exceptional human qualities of N. Kondrashov, his incredible talent as a linguist, who passed the high school of science of the 20th century.

The memoir notes by Professor N. Kondrashov’s postgraduate draws a portrait of an original Slavicist from an unusual side. The author gives a psycholinguistic characterization of the philologist’s personality, recalls the most vivid fragments of postgraduate life, and shows the teacher as an extraordinary person, a talented linguist, a living, ironic, in love with the element of human meanings. Through the lines of the flashed memory, the author brings the reader rare facts from N. Kondrashov’s philological practice, tells about his “linguistic hooliganism,” emphasizes the power of the scientist’s verbal influence on others.

The publication presents a collection of autographs of the legendary Slavist Professor N. Kondrashov. These documents are extracted from the library and archival funds, as well as the personal collection of the author. These materials are of scientific value in connection with the recipients of the scientist. Among them, there were famous historians of science and philologists of the twentieth century. The book by J. Vendryes “Language: a linguistic introduction to history” (1937) with notes and the underlining by N. Kondrashov is also of keen interest for psycholinguistic characteristics of his personality. The article is accompanied by copies of original illustrative materials.

Episodes of communication with the famous Slavist Professor N. Kondrashov at the end of the 1960s-1980s are described in the documentary essay. The author recalls the first meeting with the scientist and shares reflections on N. Kondrashov’s large-scale linguistic identity. The breadth of knowledge, unique abilities of a polyglot, high professional level and originality of ideas and works of N. Kondrashov are especially noted. The story about the linguist’s interest in the traditions of the Prague linguistic school and the works of later generations of Czech Slavists has occupied a separate place in the article. The author draws attention to personal traits when talking about informal meetings and conversations with N. Kondrashov and Professor I. Vasilenko. Social and scientific support and assistance of N. Kondrashov in philological searches at different stages of the author’s biography are shown with factual accuracy, sweet irony, and grateful memory to the teacher of more than one generation of Slavists of our country. The final chord of the article that people like Nikolay adorn our lives testifies to a rare cultural phenomenon of the personality of Professor N. Kondrashov in the circle of historical and scientific personology and linguistic discoveries of the 20th century.

The article includes letters of professors N. Kondrashov and A. Khrolenko in which actual problems of higher education of the 1980s are discussed. Special attention is paid to the development of new curriculum and textbooks on General linguistics. The controversial aspects of the preparation of new manuals on linguistics for students are discussed. The current works are analyzed. The article shows the tradition of the Soviet high school in the field of humanitarian education, aimed at creating exciting author’s courses and the implementation of a consistent regularity of mastering the basics of linguistic knowledge from “Introduction to linguistics” to “General linguistics.”

The memoirs of a post-graduate of Professor N. Kondrashov embody a colorful portrait of a slavist and show him in the circle of departmental concerns and philological discussions of the 1970s and 1980s. The author paid close attention to the linguistic vigilance of the scientist, his enthusiasm for Slavic languages, openness, firm position, human irony, and high qualities of a humanist. Forgotten episodes from the life of the faculty of Russian language and literature of Krupskaya Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institution described. They show the personality of the head of the department. Reliable facts from the biographies of N. Kondrashov’s graduate students are given. It emphasizes the ability of the scientist to apply his linguistic talent in a working environment, to educate in word and deed, his willingness to come to the rescue - to be a real Professor.

The era of the late 1960s-1970s is reconstructed: studies in graduate school, linguistic maturity, the choice of thesis topics, etc. The atmosphere of communication with the supervisor Professor N. Kondrashov is shown in the dialogues and authentic replicas. The author recalls unusual cases from his scientific biography, with humor and lively lyrical intonation describes the episodes of acquaintance and subsequent cooperation with the teacher, notes the most vivid and memorable features of his character and spiritual appearance.

The article explores word-formation models of borrowed verbs with Russian affixes and describes the functioning of hybrid formations in the slang of Russian-speaking gamers. The causes of verbal hybrids in gaming communication are analyzed. It was found that for the studied verb lexemes, the same word-formation models are productive as in the Slavic verbs, which is due to both intralinguistic and social, extralinguistic factors. The article demonstrated a high frequency of verb formation with suffixes -и-and-ну- / -ону-, as well as verbs with prefixesвы-, до-, за-, на-, от-, пере-, по-, про-, с-.

On the basis of the National Corpus of the Russian language, it is shown that the current trend of modern Russian to loose of declension of toponyms of the neuter gender, ending on -ino, -ovo, is a consequence of the increased internal migration of the Russian population. As a result of migration, cases of communication among people with unequal background knowledge have become frequent, which leads to the development of analyticism, and in particular, to the loss of declension of nouns like Pushkino or Izmailovo. The fact is that only the use of indeclinable forms of these toponyms gives uninformed addressees the opportunity to determine that such toponyms are nouns of the neuter, and not of the masculine gender, for example, that it is mentioned a town called Pushkino, not Pushkin.

The Adaptation Theory is adopted in this paper as the theoretical framework and develops a systematic analysis of the Russian translations in chapter titles of A Dream of Red Mansions (from the first chapter to the eightieth). Two editions of Russian translations are compared from levels of vocabulary and sentence structure. Each translation method used by the translator during the process of translation must adapt to a specific purpose. The chapter titles of A Dream of Red Mansions can be considered part of the novel, whose translation purpose is to realize the communicative function and to transfer aesthetic influence.

The article presents an analysis of trickster archetype in contemporary British writer A. S. Byatt's works. The research aims to clarify its function that's achieved through the methods of Jung's myth criticism and intertextual analysis. The archetype is not only disclosed in features of characters images but is also displayed as the deepest layer of their palimpsest structure. The author concludes that a trickster opens ways to unconsciousness, which accounts for its horrifying influence on character building.

The article aims to reveal the lyrical basis in autobiographic works of two Russian writers, one of them became a remarkable representative of the Russian Diaspora, the other one - of Soviet literature. The characters and situations from the tetralogy “The Gleb’s Journey” by B. Zaytsev and “The story of life” by K. Paustovsky are compared together with the realization of their literary destiny in young years. It is concluded that Gleb and Kostya consider the aims of their creative works differently, however, they are related by the understanding of their destiny and willingness to devote all their life to it.

The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the creative laboratory of the poet in the poem “No, not you so ardently I love...” (1841). The methodology of this textual research is associated with a descriptive method, determined by the need for a detailed description of sources, biographical, psychological, as well as a structural and semantic approach to the literary text. The result of the study was the clarification of the specifics of artistic thinking and worldview of the poet, reflected in the authentic texts. The theoretical significance is determined by the identification of the features of creating an artistic image in the poetry of M. Lermontov.