In the article, by the material of Chinese social advertising texts, the addressees with direct verbal, visual and verbal-visual reference are modeled. The socio-anthropocentric parameters of the addressee of Chinese social advertising texts are established. It is revealed that the dominant parameters of reference of social advertising in China at the present time are: age, family roles, professional affiliation, and nationality. The paper proves that the Chinese social advertising in the aspect of “addressee-addresser relations” performs the function of forming public opinion on socially significant aspects of society, the function of inculturation of the younger generation, encourages students to take responsibility for their studies and civil servants - to their professional duties, draws attention to the problems of relationships in the family both between spouses and between children and their parents, grandparents, encourages young people to take a more responsible attitude to marriage, raising children. It also performs the function of prevention of accidents and crimes related to the ignorance of young parents about the dangers of their young children and adolescents. The prospect of the study is to establish the linguistic and visual features of social advertising in China for recipients distinguished on a gender basis and according to the administrative-territorial division of the country.

The semantic features of functioning of the numerals тIу - dva ‘two’ in Kabardino-Circassian and Russian languages are considered. It is noted that by now linguistics has accumulated a significant amount of works on various aspects of the study of numerals, however, not all issues have received sufficient coverage. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in Adygea studying an attempt is made to comprehensively analyze the semantics and peculiarities of function of the numeral тIу in the Kabardino-Circassian language in comparison with the Russian numeral dva . The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the modern stage of development of linguistic science is characterized by an increased interest in the study of culturally significant linguistic units, which, of course, include the designation of numerical indicators due to their specific semantics, symbolic meanings relevant to a particular ethnic group. It is shown that the numerals тIу - dva in Kabardino-Cherkess and Russian languages sometimes have similarities, and in other cases bring different meanings to the statements. It is noted that the numerals тIу - dva in Kabardino-Cherkess and Russian languages can have both positive and negative connotations.

The article is devoted to the Scottish regionalist discourse in the British quality press. The period from the time of the referendum on independence in 2014 till 2019 is covered. Regionalist discourse is considered as an object of linguistic study. The definition of the term regionalist discourse as a kind of political discourse is proposed. The framework for the study of regional discourse from the standpoint of political linguistics is given. With the help of semantic-stylistic and discursive analysis the specific characteristics inherent in the Scottish regionalist media discourse are revealed. The latter include metaphorization based on both universal and culturally specific images, as well as a philological vertical context. The functions of metaphor in political discourse are briefly clarified. The author analyzes the universal metaphor of the divorce process and the cultural-specific metaphor based on the colour symbolism and cultural reference. Particular attention is paid to the geographical marking of the border between North and South in the Scottish regionalist discourse. The potential of historical and philological vertical context is discussed. Communicative strategies of appeal to the authority of Scottish literary figures (R. Burns, W. Scott, R. L. Stevenson) are revealed. The stylistic potential of Scottish dialect inclusions in the English text is considered.

The article presents the analysis of irony as a textual category and an implicit form of expression of the author’s modality from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics. The status of the ironic assessment in the literary text is defined: its implicit character and the subjective nature is noted. The emphasis is on the deontic nature of ironic assessment: the opposition between the proper and the really existing in accordance with the generally accepted rules and values. It is emphasized that the interpretation of ironic meaning depends directly on the cognitive processes of a reader, that is, of an addressee of irony, based on the mental features of irony perception and decoding. It is noted that the main conditions for adequate decoding of irony in the literary text are the text shell of the work, which implements the author’s modality, and background knowledge of perceiving irony. The basic cognitive mechanisms of ironic meaning formation and their interrelation with intentions and critical assessment of the author in N. V. Gogol’s cycle “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” are established. It is concluded that the cognitive mechanisms of realization of ironic meaning are based on the conscious and purposeful violation of the author’s semantic integrity in a literary text, which is achieved in the analyzed works through a variety of cognitive techniques.

The article is a review of scientific data on the study of text functions of Russian unions. The main stages of the linguists’ interest in the artistic potentials of Russian language coordinating and subordinating conjunctions as part of the syntactic constructions of literary works are described. The article emphasizes that the combined results of the research indicate the effectiveness of syndesis as one of the means of creating a functional, communicative and pragmatic essence of a literary text. It is stated that the study of conjunctive sentences in the text perspective is an actual and developing direction, but the general theory of text functions of Russian conjunctions has not yet fully developed. The author considers that it is expedient to reveal the methodological mechanism of interaction of deep private meanings of conjunctive utterances in the process of their participation in creation of the conceptual meaning of a literary work equal to the author’s intention. The present study promotes the expansion of ideas about the functions of functional parts of speech in the artistic narrative, and also outlines the prospects for the study of other Russian conjunctions in the textual aspect.

The article is devoted to the problem of using key words in the modern Russian Internet discourse in the aspect of attracting the attention of potential audience - users of educational sites. The purpose of this study is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of key words as a language means of creating attractiveness in media texts of Russian universities. The study is based on the method of statistical calculation of the occurrence of words and selection among the most frequent units of the text semantically related to the interests of the target audience of the text. The material for the study is media texts from the sites of Russian universities participating in the Program of increase of competitiveness of leading Russian universities among the world’s leading scientific and educational centers (5-100). It is shown that the set of linguistic means of expression of attractiveness category in Internet communication through the use of key words is very diverse and is constantly evolving and improving: verbs in imperative form; language units, comprising a positive evaluation ( high , best , most , international , leading , future , free , opportunity , etc.); means of dialogization and intimization of the statement (the words we , you , our , yours , etc.); onomastic attraction - playing with the names of universities. The practical significance of the study is that its results can be used to improve the work of educational institutions with the audience in the media environment.

The article considers the functional properties of English tag questions from the perspective of a relatively new linguistic paradigm - linguistic ecology. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that up to now these syntactic units have not received proper coverage in the linguo-ecological key. Tag questions in the discursive segments selected from the English corpus of modern fiction and film discourse were the material for the analysis. The authors present a tag question with its pre-defined and discursive meanings as a stereotypical linguistic model, designed to support the harmony of speech communication of representatives of the English linguistic culture. During the discourse analysis the following characteristics of linguoecological compatability of a tag question were highlighted: non-categoricalness, tolerance, addressee centricity, empathy, mitigation. Particular attention is paid to the strategies of communicative defocusing and hedging, adequate operation of which is the key to reducing communication risks and achieving harmonious communication. By examples of various structural and pragmatic types of tag questions, the role of assertive-evaluative, modus, deictic, directive and emotive mitigation is shown in maintaining ecological mode of communication. It is concluded that the basis of tag question ecological functioning is the syncretism of the dominant features of the English communicative style - distancing, indirectness, non-categoricalness, mitigation of directive intentions and emotive de-intensification.

The article is devoted to borrowings from the Chukchi language, which are used as terms in ethnographic studies. The question of inclusion of foreign language inclusions in the descriptions of aborigines of the North of the 18^th - 19^th centuries is considered. It is shown that in the first works for the reconstruction of ethnic and cultural features of Chukchi the words known to the Russian language were used ( nachalnik , glava , kupecheskoye sosloviye etc.), which could not convey the specifics of social relations in a foreign ethnic environment, as well as - less - dialect words, prevailing in Russian dialects in the Far North-East ( kuhlyanka ). It is revealed that the reflection of culturally marked concepts with the help of foreign language inclusions in the texts of historical and ethnographic descriptions was developed in the 19^th century. The article pays special attention to the monograph of V. G. Bogoraz “Chukchi,” in which the scientist used the knowledge of the Chukchi language for the introduction of words with national-cultural component, which have no equivalents in the Russian language. It is noted that linguistic competence and serious study of material and spiritual culture of Chukchi allowed V. G. Bogoraz to attract a large number of terms that reflect the specific aspects of the life of this people: the relationship with neighboring tribes, family structure, social differentiation, etc. As examples, foreign-language inclusions from V. G. Bogoraz’s “Chukchi” are given. It is shown that the tradition of using Chukchi terminology in scientific research was continued by ethnographers in the 20^th century (I. S. Vdovin, A. A. Leontyev, etc.), it is preserved in modern encyclopedic publications devoted to the peoples of the North-East of Siberia.

The article discusses the depiction of Paris in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novella “Das Frӓulein von Scuderi,” 1818 and in Ch. Baudelaire’s series “Tableaux parisiens,” 1861. It is noted that their authors are united by belief in fantasy as a means of knowledge. The relevance of the study is determined by the special attention of literary studies to the development of urbanism, recognizing the importance of the city phenomenon in the modern literary process. It is shown that the German romantic and the French symbolist poet depict Paris through a close interweaving of the fantastic and the real, their characters feel the influence of a large city, and Paris itself becomes a part of them. Special attention is paid to consideration of the thanatological motifs, their participation in the organization of a literary text. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the works by German romantic, who created a myth of the city he wasn’t in, and the Parisian, “leaving” Paris for the sake of exotic countries. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that Paris is considered as a dual space - “the universal capital” and the city of political cataclysms; this kind of “complex” is analyzed at the level of problems and poetics of the works by E. T. A. Hoffman and Ch. Baudelaire. This approach allowed the authors to show in the historical perspective the features of the formation of the Paris myth, in which beautiful dreams and disgusting pictures of death coexist.

The topics raised by young F. M. Dostoevsky in his correspondence of 1838-1839 with his brother Mikhail are considered. The author dwells on the fact that these letters discursively express the central theme of the early work of the writer - the search for ways to overcome the rigid shell of the world. Dostoevsky’s reflections on the world around him as a world bound by a rigid shell of matter that does not allow the true divine light to pass through and does not allow a person to connect with this light are given. It is noted that this understanding of the world order correlates with the central philosophical ideas of the time, Dostoevsky shares the views of thinkers of his era, who chose the path of spiritual search as opposed to positivist knowledge. It is emphasized that Dostoevsky took the position of those thinkers who believe the true knowledge is not in the mind, but through feelings, that is, through the heart. This explains one of the central motives of Dostoevsky’ early work - the theme of the living heart. Also, the author refers to the letters and to some fragments of Dostoevsky’s translation of Balzac’s “Eugenia Grande” to show Dostoevsky’s understanding of the poet’s role: the poet’s inspiration turns out to be akin to a heavenly revelation that breaks through rigid matter and connects man with God.

The article is devoted to the interpretation of the episode from the life of the outstanding American prose writer A. Bierce, linked with his sudden disappearance which still causes controversy among historians of literature and biographers of the writer. It is noted that the official version reads as follows: Ambrose Bierce is missing and was likely killed in the assault by Villa’s soldiers of city of Ojinaga, he was by the court declared dead in 1918. It is indicated that, nevertheless, the number of versions continued to increase, from time to time there were new rumors, but, as a rule, they were not supported by the factual material. It is emphasized that despite the once stunning popularity among contemporaries, the life and work of this outstanding prose writer still remain unexplored completely. It is argued that the study of the literary heritage of the writer is fully impossible without reference to the facts of his biography. The authors analyze the existing versions of Bierce’s “disappearance” using the materials of his epistolary heritage, and partly clarify this episode in the biography of the writer, relying on the comparative-historical, axiological, biographical (however free from the extremes of impressionism and psychology) methods.

The article is devoted to the works of forgotten writer of the 19^th-20^th centuries Ekaterina Vyacheslavovna Balobanova. The relevance of the study is due to the introduction into scientific circulation of peripheral facts of the history of the literary process. The question of Balobanova’s role in the study of Western European folklore and its popularization is raised. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that for the first time the question of literary heritage of Balobanova in the context of its interaction with Western European folklore is touched upon. Special attention is paid to the analysis of works in the context of Russian and Breton national consciousness. It is proved that the formation of the writer’s style, the specificity of literary processing of Breton folklore, the choice of folk motifs and subjects depend on general literary trend of the turn of the 19^th-20^th centuries - the desire of artists of that time to find the elusive commonality of the highest principle of human existence. The author also dwells on the issue of poetization of folklore stories and demonstrates the methods of poetization on the example of the legend “Grandmother’s House.” It is noted that E. V. Balobanova’s works organically fit into the overall flow of literature created by the authors-women of the time and aimed at promoting cultural heritage, education of the mass readers, educating younger readers - that were the main tasks that were solved by the “female” literature of the turn of the 19^th-20^th centuries.

On the material of the first introduced into scientific circulation articles published by M. Gorky in the Nizhny Novgorod press of 1895-1901, the analysis of the functions of pseudonyms as a significant component of the paratext is carried out. As a result of the work, it is established that the pseudonyms chosen and invented by the writer reflect the genre specificity of his feuilletons, essays, bibliographic notes, reviews and replicas, being a kind of marker of the author’s position. It is noted that this kind of paratext as a pseudonym gave the writer’s journalism an additional semantic and emotional impulse, formed the perception of the problems of his feuilletons, which was confirmed by the detailed analysis of the structure and function of the abbreviated form of the pseudonym “I. Khl.” By this example of this pseudonym which is an abbreviation of the nickname “Iegudiil Khlamida,” the authors show that this truncation of the name is due to issues of materials published by Gorky and their presentation. It is proved that pseudonym alludes to the facts, meaning of which is far beyond the interest of the provincial newspaper, and to the role of the author of articles covering not only local problems; for example, in the feuilletons devoted to “the Cretan question,” the author acts as a political observer of international events.

The author analyzes the influence of the ideas of Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, the leader and founder of the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, on the formation of the main directions and principles of Iranian foreign policy in the context of the first ten years of the Islamic state in Iran. Specific examples show the attitude of Ayatollah Khomeini to foreign policy issues in the years of the anti-Shah movement in Iran, as well as the final form of his system doctrine after the 1979 revolution. Considering in a comparative perspective the foreign policy priorities of the Shah and the Islamic regime, the author focuses on the metamorphoses of Iranian diplomacy of the 1980s. It is noted that the Islamic Republic has declared its priority the strengthening relations and cooperation with the Muslim world, as well as ideological, economic and military-political opposition to the West. At the same time, Khomeini’s pragmatic approach to practical politics is shown, which in many cases had serious differences with his theoretical ideas about the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic.

Features of formation and development of mining districts in the territory relating to modern Udmurtia in the pre-reform period (the end of the 18^th - the first half of the 19^th century) are considered. The study is based on archival materials, publications in Vyatskie Gubernskie Vedomosti , as well as on the historiographical tradition, in particular, the works of historians of the Urals, devoted to the concept of “mining district.” The focus is on the history of the founding of metallurgical enterprises: Pudem Ironworks, Kamsko-Votkinsk Ironworks, Izhevsk Arms Factory and Ironworks, Bemyshev Copper Works, their productivity. The complex of natural factors that influenced the choice of places for the construction of plants is characterized. It is shown that the main resource base of the mining industry were local ore deposits, reservoirs (rivers and ponds with dams), forests, as well as human resources. It is concluded that the mining districts in the study area, formed in the process of extensive development of the mining industry of the Urals, were complexly organized territorial socio-economic complexes with a multi-layered system of economy, they included various types of land, villages of peasants and other categories of workers, kurens, cutting areas, mines, marinas, etc., located on a large territory.

The article is devoted to the study of material situation of the parish clergy of the Orthodox Russian Church in the second half of 19^th - early 20^th centuries. On the basis of archival documents and published sources, the standard of living of the clergy is analyzed, the total income of clerics is identified, taking into account the profits from all available sources of supply. Special attention is paid to the analysis of property inequality of spiritual persons. The author comes to a conclusion that in the period under review, the income of the clergy of the Central Chernozem dioceses has increased significantly due to the growth of the congregation and the increase in ritual load, as well as to government measures taken in the framework of implementation of the ways of financial support of clergy developed by the Office in the Affairs of the Orthodox clergy. It is noted that, despite the significant increase in revenues, a set of problems related to material support of parishes finally was not solved. According to the author, this is the reason for the growth of protest moods within the spiritual class in the early 20^th century.

The article is devoted to the characteristics of taxes and duties of the peasant population of the Kuzbass region in the “post-reform” period. The issues of the content of the main varieties of taxes and duties, their amounts, ratio and dynamics during the second half of the 19^th century are considered. Attention is paid to the characteristics of each type of taxes and duties. Based on statistical data analysis, the results of a comparative analysis of taxes and duties in the Cabinet and state villages of the Kuzbass region are presented. The question is raised about the ratio of different types of taxes and duties in the total amount of per capita tax. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that for the first time on the basis of statistical data processing the state and dynamics of taxes and duties in the Kuzbass region by the end of the 19^th century are presented. The differences in the state and development of taxes and duties on the Cabinet and state Kuzbass lands are demonstrated. The relevance of the study is due to its scientific and social significance. Scientific significance is determined by the fact that this kind of research, based on statistical data analysis, is being conducted for the first time. Social significance is related to the need to draw attention to the problems of sustainable socio-economic development of rural areas at the present time.

The article is devoted to the problem of the presence of writing in one of the indigenous peoples of Dagestan - Avars - before the establishment of Islam and Arabic culture and writing. Special attention is paid to the most ancient written monuments found on the territory of traditional settlement of Avars. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that in the scientific literature the peoples of Dagestan before joining Russia are represented as peoples who did not have their own writing and culture. The relevance of the study is due to the need to refute the well-established opinion about the lack of writing of the peoples of Dagestan, including the Avars, until 1928. The author dwells in detail on the most ancient writing systems that became known to the peoples of Dagestan, in particular to the Avars, and were adapted to create their own original writing system. The work uses all available literature, including archaeological data, containing information about the first written sources in the Avar language. It is shown that the Avar written language in different periods of history was based on one of four writing styles: Georgian graphics, Arabic alphabet, Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet.

The base of the study was a set of statistical data, both stored in the personal archives of the authors and published in the form of statistical collections, as well as scientific literature. The analysis of the socio-economic situation of the Sverdlovsk Region (Middle Urals) in the first year after the systemic economic crisis of August 1998 is carried out. The scientific novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the reconstruction of the socio-economic state of the region was carried out in one of the turning years of its history. New previously unpublished materials are being introduced into scientific circulation. It is noted that the financial crisis of 1998 dealt a powerful blow to the socio-economic life of the Russian Federation. It is stated that it was only the ultimate aggravation of the extreme socio-economic situation already at that time. It is stated that 1999 was a year of turning point in general and gradual transition to the systematic development of market relations. It is declared that during this year there were significant positive changes in the industry and the budgetary sphere of the region. It is claimed that there was a deep stagnation in agriculture. The conclusion is made about the ambiguity of the crisis consequences for different categories of the population.

The article analyzes the features of the formation and development of the construction industry in the Ulyanovsk region in the 1960-80ies, as well as the state of the material and technical base of construction. The relevance of the study is due to both the historiographical lacuna on this topic and the degree of high social significance of the housing construction sector. A detailed analysis of the housing policy of local authorities in Ulyanovsk and Dimitrovgrad is necessary to recreate the historical reality that has developed in the region during this period. The main difficulties of implementing the programme of mass housing construction are revealed. Archival data from the funds of the State archive of the Ulyanovsk region and the State archive of the modern history of the Ulyanovsk region are introduced into scientific circulation, materials of the periodical press are involved. It is noted that the construction was characterized by construction monotony, questionable architectural value of buildings, allowed irrational layout of housing: small apartments with low ceilings, small kitchens, walk-through rooms. The authors claim that the campaign initiated by the local party bodies in the 1960ies-1980ies to build residential quarters in Ulyanovsk and Dimitrovgrad helped to significantly relieve tensions in the housing sector: the population was provided with comfortable housing, resettlement from communal apartments, barracks, dilapidated housing was carried out.

The history of the Italian occupation of the island of Kerkyra (Corfu), one of the Ionian Islands currently part of Greece, is considered. The period after 1912 when Italy, having won a military victory over the Ottoman Empire, occupied Libya and the Dodecanese Islands is characterized. It is noted that at this time another goal of Italian foreign policy in the Mediterranean was Albania, independence of which was proclaimed in 1912, and the adjacent Islands of the Ionian archipelago. The author of the article dwells on the fact that the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, which finally secured the possession of the Dodecanese Islands for Italy, allowed Italy to intensify its policy in the Ionian sea region. The author was able to identify the main stages of the diplomatic struggle over the occupation of the island of Corfu, to show the special interest of Italy in resolving the issue of Corfu outside the structures of the new international organization - the League of Nations. It is proved that the final withdrawal of Italian troops from the occupied island was the result of negotiations between Italy, Britain and France, while the opinion of Greece was practically not taken into account. The article is based on Italian and British official publications of diplomatic documents.

This article is devoted to the study of the legal conditions that allowed the King of England Henry V to make a claim to the throne of France. The author points out that by the beginning of the 15th century. in France, there was a fairly stable tradition of the transfer of royal power, which included such principles as primogeniture, agnat law, the «blood right», the exclusion of foreigners, as well as women and their offspring from inheritance. Under the influence of the Hundred Years War, these rules received additional arguments, making the implementation of the claims of the English monarchs almost impossible. However, the political crisis of the beginning of the 15th century. in France, including the death of two dauphins and the royal «schism», created a legal loophole. It consisted in the adoption procedure, according to which King Charles VI of France recognized Henry V as his son and heir. This idea was formed on the basis of the experience of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Neapolitan in 1419. According to the author, the Treaty of Troyes established new principles for the transfer of the throne and became a compromise between the dynasties of Valois and Lancaster.

The role of the family institution is examined in the preservation and transmission of ethnic culture of the local group of the Udmurts in the Republic of Tatarstan at the present stage in the conditions of active environment of different ethnicity and confession. The source basis of the article was the materials of ethnographic expeditions and sociological research data collected in 2003 and 2012-2013 among the Udmurts living in the Kukmor district of the Republic of Tatarstan and Naberezhnye Chelny. The author comes to the conclusion that to preserve their own identity the Udmurts of Tatarstan mobilize traditional culture, actualize ethnic and linguistic identity, relations within the ethnic group. Ethnic stereotypes, behavioral practices of the Udmurts of the Republic of Tatarstan were formed largely under the influence of the Turkic component, so adaptation to social reality makes local Udmurts to be as active as the Tatars, to develop mechanisms for preserving their cultural identity, not the least of which is the respect for their ethnic culture and awareness of its value. It is revealed that the most important factors in the reproduction of ethnic culture in zavyatskiye Udmurts are living in a predominantly Udmurt environment, a large proportion of mono-national and multi-generational families, search and constant reproduction of cultural markers in the Udmurt material and spiritual culture, the use of the native language in communication, teaching their language in schools.

The problem of hiring a foreign teacher in one of the first foreign language schools of provincial Russia, the German school of Yekaterinburg, and his activities is considered. The particular interest in hiring B. Stermer is explained by the fact that it is a rare case of participation not only of the Academy of Sciences, but also of the Supreme authority, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the future teacher skillfully used the opening of the first school in the Urals, a remote region from the capital, to consolidate the most favorable working conditions. On the basis of a reconstruction of the full complex of archival documents deposited in the result of Stermer’s stay in Yekaterinburg, his activities on training children, the development of the program and teaching methods, writing instruction for teachers are revealed. His role in getting textbooks through the Academy of Sciences is characterized. The article comments on the implementation of the orders of the Ural authorities on the inspection in 1736 of schools, opened in the Perm region, as well as participation in the preparation of the Russian-Latin-German lexicon on the instructions of the head of the plants V. N. Tatishchev. It is shown that Stermer’s life in Yekaterinburg can be divided into two periods. Productive first years of work in the conditions of remoteness from the capital were replaced by depression, which resulted in drunkenness, rampant lifestyle and forced temporary release of the teacher from duty.

The results of research are presented conducted in the framework of the grant RFBR and Volgograd Region Administration (research project 18-49-343006 р_мол_а). The relevance of the work is due to the current demographic situation and the role of the postwar period in the development of demographic processes in the early 21^st century. Based on the analysis of unpublished archival materials of a statistical nature, the dynamics of the main components of the natural population growth of the Stalingrad region in the 1940s-1950s is presented. Describing the features of fertility and mortality in the study period, the author traces the stages in the process of population reproduction and reveals their general trend. The factors influencing natural demographic processes in the region are revealed. The influence of the Great Patriotic War on the reproduction of the population, its age and sex structure, marriage is shown. The main directions of demographic policy and features of their implementation in the Stalingrad Region are characterized. Attention is paid to changes in the structure of causes of death, including infant mortality. The role of mechanical population movement in the demographic processes of the region as a source of population recovery in the region is determined. Factors and features of labour migration to the Stalingrad Region are revealed, and also the process of migration of the population from the village to the city is commented.