I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

urbanonyms, onomastics, Chuvash language, Russian language, language contacts

The work is devoted to the study of the official Chuvash urbanonyms of the city of Cheboksary. The aim of the study is to establish the characteristic features of the Chuvash urbanonyms of Cheboksary in comparison with the Russian ones and present them as a systemic phenomenon. The research material is the official nomenclature of urban geonyms. The conclusions are based on quantitative and qualitative research methods in the aspect of onomastics, orthology, social linguistics and translation studies. In fact, Chuvash urbanonyms of Cheboksary have an auxiliary secondary status. They accompany Russian names, are the means of formation of loyal attitude towards the Chuvash culture, support the specific linguistic landscape of the city and act as an essential factor that substantiates the Cheboksary dialect of the Russian language. According to the study, the phenomenon of the modern Russian-centered urbanonyms of Cheboksary originated in the second half of the 18^th century and was caused by the transition of the Chuvash people to the Orthodox name book. Currently, in the context of a significant linguistic shift in the Chuvash environment, the translation of the official visual and verbal landscapes of Cheboksary into the Chuvash language is becoming one of the most important measures to give the city unique features and strengthen regional identity. The urbanonyms of Cheboksary, including Chuvash names, are subject to codification within the framework of a specific encyclopedic dictionary.

Фомин Эдуард Валентинович – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры гуманитарных и социально-экономических дисциплин Чувашского государственного института культуры и искусств, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: yeresen@yandex.ru