The main provisions of the concept of comparative vocabulary representation of East Slavic proverbs, developed by the lexicographers of St. Petersburg and Pskov universities are presented. The principles of macrostructuring of the “Big Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian dictionary of proverbs are formulated”. The methods of parametrization of paremiological parallels and uniqueness are substantiated. The relevance of the study in the modern sociopolitical situation is determined by the need to strengthen the traditions of objective interpretation of the ethno-linguistic unity of the Eastern Slavs. The novelty of the research lies in the appeal to the paremiological material that has not been developed in a comparative lexicographic aspect and an innovative approach to its lexicography. It is proved that the value of the dictionary as an ethnolinguistic and linguoaxiological source will increase due to the combination of the thematic organization of the material, marking the similarities and differences in the presentation of paremiological parallels and combining the paremias under axiological headings. Particular attention is paid to the identification and vocabulary representation of complete interlingual paremiological equivalents, the establishment of the types of correspondences for partial equivalents, the description of their ethno-specific elements. The possibilities of implementing the comparative aspect are shown when using the format of the lexicographic representation of the axiological content of the paremias proposed by the authors. It is emphasized that the developed lexicographic concept will make it possible to present the East Slavic paremiological space in the unity and diversity of structural and semantic models, linguistic images, axiological vectors and will contribute to the improvement of the system of comparative paremiography.

The questions of the invariant semantics of the symbol and its actualization in the texts of Russian rock poetry are considered. Attention is paid to the studies of the symbol, concept and image of the star in Russian poetry and rock poetry. The author notes that these studies do not present the correlation of individually authored imaginative worldview with the worldview of the subculture reflected in the text. A review of the work of linguistic poetics and anthropocentric linguistics is performed. The definitions of a symbol within the framework of these paradigms are given. It is concluded that the understanding of a symbol as a carrier of the worldview of culture changes the idea of the connection between the signifier and the signified and the “reference point” of the aesthetic. The author proceeds from the fact that the aesthetic image is built on the basis of the invariant semantics of a symbol in the language of subculture. The results of a comparative analysis of the symbolic semantics of the star nomination in the language of Russian rock poetry and other subsystems of the Russian national language, including aesthetically oriented ones, are presented. It is shown that the invariant semantics of the STAR symbol, relevant for Russian rock poetry, lies at the heart of the star’s images, which are identical, connected and contrasted with the author’s image. It is proved that the actualization of the semantics of the STAR symbol does not depend on the specific author and the text of Russian rock poetry, reproduces general ideas about the world.

The results of the study of the Law of the Russian Empire on Jews are presented. It is stated that these documents form a hybrid discursive community of texts, combining the directivity of the law and the persuasiveness of the nationalist text. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that the study of the normative texts of the legislation of the Russian Empire (XVIII, XIX centuries) allows not only to reveal the patterns of development of the language of law, but also to supplement information about the linguistic and pragmatic characteristics of speech genres. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that examples of the mutual influence of legislative and socio-political discourses are considered. From the layer of legislative acts regulating the legal relations of Jews, the author singles out the nationalist law on Jews, which distinguishes the focus on forcing the addressee to causate the situation of protecting Christianity from the hostile influence of the Jews, on overcoming the situation of non-use (harm), where the agents are Jews. This circumstance ensures the presence of a motivational part in the structural-content scheme, which justifies the usefulness of legislative regulation by the negative nature of the image of Jews as an ethnic and religious community, the expression of contrasting prescriptions that are discriminatory towards Jews and preferential against the opposing Jews to national and religious groups. The author, analyzing the use of the nomination jude , highlights the general non-invective nature of the nationalist law on Jews.

The article is the result of a long-term study of autobiographies and memoirs from the Fund of the First Builders of Uralmash, collected in 1967-1984 and dedicated to the construction of the plant (1926-1934). The question of the role of spatial and temporal markers in the construction of the collective identity of factory workers is considered. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between strong discursive practices and the “weak positions” of the official discourse, which allow authors to independently write their personal history into the history of the plant. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the Foundation's documents are viewed not as a factual source, but as a way of creating collective and personal identity of factory workers in the process of forming the concept of the FIRST BUILDER and as a body of texts, which reflects the practice of constructing the “Soviet”. It is emphasized that a special perception of space (the plant and the social city of Uralmash) and the placement of oneself in a certain historical era (with the opposition “then-now”) unite most of the Foundation's texts, among the authors of which are workers of the plant of different specialties and social status. It is proved that the texts have a common chronotope associated with the axiological picture of the world and with the practice of social communication through the text.

The article is devoted to the role of intertext in public speeches of politicians of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria within the framework of the “political ash Wednesday”. On the example of the speeches of M. Söder, A. Scheuer and M. Blume in 2018, the relationship between the type of intertext and its pretext, on the one hand, and the speaker’s intention, on the other, was analyzed. As a result of the analysis of 23 intertextual inclusions, four intentions were revealed, among which (48 %) criticism of political opponents (SDPG, “The Greens”, AfD, “Free Voters”) prevails. Quotes from representatives of these parties, political slogans, a paraphrase of the name of the eco-movement and a quote from an artist are used to express it. As the intertextual analysis showed, to verbalize the second intention (appeal to authoritative opinion and emphasize the continuity of the party course), the former chairman of the CSU F. J. Strauss is cited, while the third intention (opposing Bavaria to the rest of Germany) is implemented using a quote from the Bavarian anthem, a paraphrase of a television commercial and quotations from a literary work. In addition, the authors found that the fourth intention (emphasizing the dialogic nature of communication with ordinary people) is found only in M. Söder’s speech in the form of a retelling of his dialogues with ordinary citizens.

The analysis of symptomatic vocabulary - units denoting a person’s reaction to a certain emotion or the state of a person who is in the grip of emotion is considered in the article. Two classes of symptomatic units are given: (1) units describing the uncontrolled physiological reactions of a person to emotion, for example, blush with embarrassment, pleasure ; (2) units that describe mental signs that indicate a change in a person’s normal behavior under the influence of strong emotion, for example, to go crazy with fear or jealousy . The focus is on a subclass of symptomatic vocabulary - symptomatic units with built-in emotion. The peculiarity of these units is that they reflect the conceptualization of emotion through a symptom that correlates with this emotion in the picture of the world of a particular language. For example, the verb blush in metaphorical use means a sense of shame ( blush for your actions, for your son ); the French noun stupeur stupor, numbness’ acts as a unit with built-in emotion, indicating a strong surprise. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the analysis of symptomatic expressions, especially symptomatic vocabulary with built-in emotion, allows you to identify differences in the conceptualization of emotions in different languages.

The problem of recognition of the manipulative text in the news on the example of Kazakhstani media is posed. One of the most important tasks of text research in the context of manipulativeness is to find something that, although it has a linguistic representation, is obviously pragmatically “obscured”, hidden from the addressee. It is emphasized that in such cases, the danger of manipulation increases at times, since it is addressed both to large social groups and to society as a whole. The relevance of the work is that the destructive nature of manipulation can lead to large-scale social upheaval. The study is based on the hypothesis of a uniform structure of the manipulative text in the context of big data research for further machine processing. Based on the formed working definition of manipulability, an algorithm for analyzing media texts has been developed, which includes a complex of speech and language indicators. The work was carried out on a corpus of 1,000 media texts, selected from 10,000 fragments of manipulative discourses. Both unambiguous and mixed components are distinguished, that is, linguistic units capable of performing dual functions due to their semantic polysemy. A 4-component universal structure of manipulative texts is compiled, including language parameters extracted from manipulative texts.

One of the aspects of the complex linguo-cognitive description of the concept UDACHA (LUCK) and the features of its linguistic representation in Russian speech is presented in the article. Attention is paid to the discourse actualization of models of conceptual metaphorization of the word luck as a basic representative of the concept of the same name. The aim of the research is to analyze cognitive models and conceptual schemes of metaphorical reification and animation of the concept UDACHA, actualized in contexts. The research material was extracted from the Russian National Corpus and collected in the course of the Internet monitoring conducted by the author of the article. The method of research is the procedure of conceptual analysis adopted in the Nizhny Novgorod school of concept research. The question is raised that the rethinking of abstract entities through concrete-sensory representations is generally characteristic of the folk-mythological perception of the world, presented in the “naive” picture of the world, reflected in natural language. It is shown that in metaphorical models of reification, luck is figuratively represented as an inanimate concrete-sensual object, as a point localized in space, as a substance, as a container (receptacle), as a physical environment. It has also been established that in metaphorical models of animation and / or personification, luck is metaphorically represented either in general as a living, actively acting entity, or as a supernatural or human being. It is concluded that in the Russian linguistic consciousness, the cognitive schemes of the linguistic conceptualization of the world are active and stable, which arose at the early stages of the spiritual evolution of the Russian world and have a centuries-old tradition not only in Russian, but also in world culture.

The feminitives (nouns denoting women) of the modern Russian language, formed with the help of the productive suffixal morpheme ‘-shits(a) /-chits(a)’ are considered. The views of scientists of the 19th-21st centuries on the process of derivation of feminine nouns are characterized. The relevance of the study is due to the stable productivity of the suffix formant and the insufficient development of the theory of word formation of feminitives. Structural-semantic and corpuscular methods are used. The novelty and scientific significance of the work is determined primarily by the research material: neologisms, which are included in the dictionaries of new words of 1971-2014, the Russian National Corpus (main and newspaper corps) used in media texts, are analyzed. The specifics of correlates of male and female gender fixing in the explanatory dictionaries of the last years of publication are shown. Particular attention is paid to the semantics of neoplasms, a classification of new feminitives by semantic properties is proposed. Motivating words, morphological features of the compound of the formant with the motivating basis are revealed. The author dwells on potential neologisms. The conclusion is made that the formation of feminitives with suffixes ‘-shits(a ) /-chits(a)’, as well as masculine nouns with value of a person, is carried out using verbs and deverbatives, nouns and adjectives.

The analysis of historical, culturally motivated ideas about the German knight, which are objectified in the language not only in conventional, unified standards, but primarily in socio-ethnocultural assessments and stereotypes, is presented. The material of the study was German knightly novels: “Tristan” (“Tristan”) by Gottfried of Strasbourg, “Poor Heinrich” (“Der arme Heinrich”) by Hartmann von Aue, “Eneasroman” by Heinrich von Veldeke. Particular attention is paid to the study of indicators of the national specificity of the image of the German knight. It is proved in the work that the actualization of lexical units that serve to represent the image of a knight is largely specific and due to the genre specificity of Western European literature texts of the Middle Ages. It is stated that the knowledge of medieval German culture bearers about the surrounding reality, objectified by the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and speech units, structures, compositions, united as a whole by the characteristics of the surrounding world are accumulated in the artistic picture of the world in the Middle Ages. It is concluded that the image of a knight embodies the complex of worldview coordinates and values of the knightly estate, which are recorded in a verbal (artistic) text in the form of a specially organized system of knowledge and ideas about the world.

The article is devoted to the semantic structure of the verb “prisnat’sya” (to confess). The work was carried out in line with the integral description of vocabulary and linguoaxiology. Particular attention is paid to the axiological component of the semantics of the investigated verb. The lexicographic portrayal of the lexeme is applied according to the principles of integral description. It is shown that the verb “prisnat’sya” (to confess) can serve as a metalanguage means of revealing the value components of linguistic units and the realities indicated by them. The material of the study was Russian texts, primarily from the National Corps of the Russian Language, and contexts constructed by the author that are linguistically relevant for solving the problems posed in the article. Interpretations of the verb “prisnat’sya” (to confess) in authoritative dictionaries of the Russian language of the 20th - 21st centuries are critically examined, and its semantic specificity is defined. An explanation of the verb “prisnat’sya” (to confess) in a clichéd expression “prisnat’sya v lyubvi” (to confess one’s love to someone) is offered. The semantic-pragmatic, morphological, syntactic, communicative-prosodic difference between the three groups of uses of the analyzed verb is demonstrated. The first two groups of uses are covered by an axiologically labeled token confess¹ , against which the concept of an axiological homonym “prisnat’sya” (to confess)² is introduced. As a result of the analysis, our own analytical interpretations are proposed “prisnat’sya” (to confess)¹ and “prisnat’sya” (to confess)² . It is concluded that the presuppositional component of its semantics is a semantic factor that ensures the ability of a token “prisnat’sya” (to confess)¹ to be a metalinguistic indicator of values.

The article is focused on the role of lexical and prosodic means of expression in the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in German political media discourse. As a research task, the authors identified an attempt to assess the dynamics of the image of the coronavirus phenomenon in the media and to identify the conditionality of the use of linguistic units at certain stages of the pandemic. The material for the study was transcripts and audio recordings of plots from leading German news channels in the first half of 2020. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the frequency of the use of lexical units and the correlation of lexical and prosodic means of expression. In the course of linguo-stylistic analysis, the main stylistic means are established, depicting the course of the pandemic and the fight against the virus. The prosodic features of the informants' speech, which are determined in the course of the electroacoustic analysis of statements, are brought into consideration. The impact of COVID-19 on all spheres of public life in Germany and its maximum representation in the media determine the relevance of this study. The novelty of the study is seen in the application of a comprehensive methodology for analyzing expressive means in the speech of informants in the period from January to May 2020.

The article is devoted to studying the types of modifications of phraseological units with mythological allusions. The functions performed by them in the English discourse are characterized. The relevance of the study is due to the insufficient knowledge of intentionally modified precedent units - phraseological units with a mythological component - and the specifics of their functioning in the discursive space of the English language. The novelty of the study is seen in the explicitation of the modifications (transformations) classification of precedent units in relation to phraseological units containing mythonyms that refer to ancient Greek myths. The author identifies three main modification types of the precedent units of phraseological units with a mythonym component: semantic, structural-lexical and syntactic. Particular attention is paid to identifying the functions of modified phraseological units in multi-discourse English texts. It is shown that the modification of the considered precedent units allows the author of the statement to originally identify the situations and events illuminated by him (the qualifying function of the modified phraseological units), give the text expressiveness and brightness (expressive-decorative function), convincingly express his point of view (persuasive function), convey irony or create humorous effect through a language game (human function), identify their group affiliation (password function).

The analysis of O. Wilde’s early tragedy “The Duchess of Padua” was made in the light of the “unrealistic philosophy” and the writer’s complex of representations of irrational power. Attention is paid to the reasons for Wilde's appeal to the genre of tragedy, which lies in the desire for popularity, in the aspiration to show the talent of the playwright, and in the implementation of philosophical and aesthetic principles. The novelty of the research results is seen in the fact that the play, deprived of the attention of Russian literary critics, is shown as meaningful and ideologically significant. A review of works studying the traditions of the Renaissance tragedy, including Shakespearean, romantic is performed. The provision on the formation of the principles of the "new" drama, combined in the “Duchess of Padua” with the scale of the philosophical problems of ancient texts, is substantiated. The topics identified in the play by domestic and foreign literary scholars are named. The main elements of the plot in the framework of external and internal conflicts are considered. Particular attention is paid to internal conflict, reflecting Wilde’s philosophical views. Studying the tragedy from the perspective of the “unrealistic philosophy” made it possible to reveal Wilde’s ideas about the pressing issues of the contemporary world. It is proved that the most significant problem for him is the victory of pragmatism, the rational principle over spirituality.

To establish the genesis and transformation of motives in different versions of the Buryat epic texts about Geser, for the first time in a comparative typological aspect, a plot about a heroic battle is analyzed. The similarities and differences in the motive fund of one plot in different local traditions are determined. From the perspective of the main goal of the study to identify the initial motive fund characteristic of the epic tradition of the Mongol peoples, it is relevant and significant to highlight the variation of motives in the local tradition. The static nature of the event series in the invariant of the motives of the fight and victory in the Ekhirit-Bulagat version shows the presence of one main variant of the motive for the fight with the enemy: the traditional fight. The use of variants of the motive of traditional types of wrestling and archery and new variants of the motive: battle and group battles, fighting with the “force of the point”, that is, with a dagger, a spear is revealed in the article. A comparative typological analysis of the motive fund in one plot in different versions establishes the preservation and transformation of the epic text, a feature of the regional variants of the national epic. The revealed discrepancies in the development of the plot about the heroic battle and the composition of the motivational fund show different stages in the addition of two versions of the heroic epic.

The article is devoted to the study of the historical poetics of the Olonkho Vilyui Yakuts. The relevance of the study is due to the need for an in-depth study of the archaic and late layers of the Yakut heroic epic based on the materials of the Vilyui expedition of 1938, with the help of which it is possible to reveal the specifics of the olonkho of the Vilyui region. The author of the article concludes that the materials of this expedition accurately reflect the peculiarities of the local tradition under consideration. The archaic stratum of olonkho is revealed, which is characterized by a ritual parenthetic song before or after the performance of the epic, the preservation of the mythologeme of the creation of the world, the image of the sacred birch Aar Kuduk Khatyng, a less developed description in the epic beginning. It has been established that the formation of the late layer of olonkho poetics is associated with a number of reasons, including the following: the cumulative nature of the characters’ actions under the influence of a fairy tale; demythologization; replacement of the heroic with everyday life; reflection of the negative consequences of the development of society; the appearance of borrowed words, the names of Russian cities, Christian concepts, images of Russian girls, the fire-breathing Serpent Gorynych, Baba Yaga as a result of close ties with Russians, their culture and worldview; the emergence of a war motive between the aiyy and abaasy tribes as a reflection of the Great Patriotic War; the image of the achievements of technical progress (in particular, the steamer); displacement of images; using the image of a shaman; the introduction of an intermediate layer of images of semi-ayy and semi-baasy.

Features of the interpretation of events related to the life and death of the Queen of Scotland, Mary Stuart (1542-1587), in the works of the outstanding German playwright F. Schiller (1759-1805) and his contemporary, the famous writer Christian Heinrich Spiess (Spiess, 1755-1799) is considered. The originality in the image of the last days of Mary by C. H. Spiess and F. Schiller is emphasized. The question is raised about the various literary and aesthetic positions of both German writers. Attention is paid to the review of works in various genres and genres of art dedicated to Mary Stuart by Spiess and Schiller. First, an analysis of the work of the author, which is secondary in the framework of German and European literature, is presented, since Spiess wrote his tragedy many years before the great German playwright. It is shown that Schiller’s tragedy was written with a characteristic thirst for epic coverage of reality, while the stage play of Spiess is more focused on the events of the last days of Mary Stuart’s life and turns into a chamber work. The results of the study can be used when giving lecture courses on foreign literature of the XVIII-XXI centuries, special courses on the literature of Western European countries, on the problems of classical literature in Germany, as well as literature of the Western European Enlightenment and pre-romanticism.

The Russian translation reception of Robert Burns's poem “Who is that at my bower-door?..” (1783) is for the first time considered in the article. It is emphasized that the comic work did not attract the attention of Russian translators until 1862, when the unsatisfactory interpretation of V. D. Kostomarov, deprived of the emotionality of the English original, came out. The results of the analysis of translations of the poem created by M. N. Shelgunov (1879), T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik (publ. 1936), S. Ya. Marshak (1939), S. Sapozhnikov (publ. 2014), E. D. Feldman (2017), A. V. Krotkov (publ. 2018) are presented. The perception of Burns’ work in Russian literary criticism and literary criticism is comprehended. In particular, numerous reviews and studies are analyzed (A. T. Twardowski, K. I. Chukovsky, E. G. Etkind, T. B. Liokumovich, R. Ya. Wright-Kovaleva, A. Bobyleva), caused by S. Ya. Marshak translation, who, despite all his liberties, preserved the atmosphere of a lively conversation between two people, and emphasized their intonational, emotional and gender differences. It is noted that, having entered into a polemic with S. Ya. Marshak, who made Burns unnecessarily classic and stylistically “smooth”, modern translators created interpretations in the spirit of courteous poetry, largely devoid of the aesthetics of the original, its unique melody.

Methods and approaches in the selection of informants for fixing folklore works of Russians, Evens, Yakuts, who have inhabited the North-East of Yakutia since ancient times, are considered. The authors dwell on such issues as ways of finding informants; clarification of the status (narrator, singer and performer); concretization of the performer’s personality and his repertoire. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that at the present stage, methods of selecting informants are being studied; the approaches to the selection of performers of song folklore, used by M.N.Zhirkov, are specified; the change in the status of the storytellers of Russian folklore is traced; the main features of the performance of the Even epic by the narrators are analyzed. The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the history of the study of the epic and song heritage of personalities-performers of the song-prose epic of the Russians Ustye, Evens and Yakuts by the staff of the Institute of Language and Culture is examined. Methods and approaches of M. N. Zhirkov in the selection of performers, as well as their repertoire to be fixed, are revealed. The importance of summarizing the already achieved results and setting new tasks in collecting and fixing folklore and musical material in the context of the extinction of folklore tradition and a reduction in the number of experts of traditional culture is affirmed.

The relevance of the study is due to the critical importance for the country of technological breakthrough, overcoming the inhibition of modernization processes. The novelty of the study is in the fact that on the basis of published and declassified archival documents, the problem of implementing the development plans for the oil industry in the years of the first five-year plans is investigated, factors that determine their failure are identified. As the main reasons, based on the results of the analysis of documentary data, serious strategic miscalculations in planning, the elimination of a whole cohort of brilliant oil workers were identified. The studied documents and materials made it possible to formulate the conclusion that large-scale plans were not fully supported by financial, human, technological resources. It is proved that this caused a disproportion between the growth of the national economy and the country's fuel balance. Particular attention is paid to the serious miscalculations of the Soviet government regarding the creation of an oil base in the east of the country. It is proved that, despite the recommendations of prominent scientists, only in the late 1930s the course changed, the realization of the need to search and develop new deposits in the Ural-Volga region came. It is concluded that as a result, by 1941, this oil-bearing region was not sufficiently mastered, but the foundation of “Second Baku” was laid.

This work is devoted to studying the issue of how the events of the political crisis of 2014-2016 in Ukraine were reflected in the UK media. The main features of the British print media are highlighted, the characteristic features of the British newspaper and journalistic discourse are revealed. The study was conducted on the basis of journalistic texts of 2014-2016. The appearance and transformation of the prevailing in the UK opinions about the Ukrainian crisis and its assessments in the press are shown. It raises the issue of coverage by the British media of a referendum on the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation, the armed confrontation in the South-East of Ukraine and the conclusion of the Minsk agreements. The authors infer that over the course of two years there has been a noticeable change in the tone and rhetoric of newspaper publications in British press: if in 2014 the judgments of the journalists were mostly pronounced negative, then over time the estimates became more balanced and restrained. It is noted that by the end of 2015 there was a noticeable decline in interest from large British print media to cover the Ukrainian conflict, which was manifested in a noticeable reduction in publications affecting this topic.

Foreign direct investment in Russia in a historical aspect are discussed in the article. It is noted that theoretical studies on this issue have led to a better understanding of the economic mechanism and the behavior of various participants in the economic sphere at both the micro and macro levels, which has opened up new areas of research in the field of economics. It is stated that an understanding of why a company initiates foreign direct investment in a particular country or increases their volume, allows us to present the main motives of the management of firms to invest, rather than to export or outsource production to national firms. The purpose of this study is to identify the main trends in foreign direct investment in the Russian Federation in various historical periods. A review of economic indicators on attracted investments, reflected in the relevant economic reports of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, as well as other documents, a periodization of direct foreign investment in the Russian Federation was made. Based on the analysis, the authors propose to consider five periods: from the late 1980s to 1999, from 2000 to 2007, from 2008 to 2013, from 2014 to 2019 and from 2020 to the present, which have their own characteristics. Attention is paid to the fact that foreign direct investment in the Russian Federation during these periods was uneven, due to serious political contradictions in the international arena.

The activities of military topographers in Western Siberia to provide cartographic information on the foreign and domestic policies of the Russian Empire in Central Asia and Siberia in the 19th century are considered in the article. The role of information in the formation of the Russian Empire is emphasized. The contribution of the state to the organization of the study of the Asian regions of Russia and neighboring countries is noted. The establishment of the military topographic service in Western Siberia can be traced taking into account data on administrative transformations in the Siberian region, and on changes in the foreign policy of the Russian Empire. The participation of military topographers in determining and designating the state border with China is described in detail. The question of the role of military topographers in the scientific study of China and Mongolia is raised. The significance of the activities of military topographers for the policy of the Russian Empire on the socio-economic development of Siberia and the north-eastern part of the territory of modern Kazakhstan is revealed. The contribution of topographers to the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway, the design of river channels and new land routes is revealed. A large amount of literary sources, materials on the work of military topographers of Western Siberia, published in “Notes of the Military Topographic Department of the General Staff” is used in the article.

The formation of state policy in the field of foreign primary education in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries on the example of the Yakutsk region is considered in the article. It is noted that until the middle of the 19th century the state took its time to develop the education system on foreign outskirts, then during the liberal reforms of the 1860-1870s the government paid special attention to foreign education. It is reported that in total for the period under review four legislative documents were adopted on the education of non-Russian peoples with the aim of unifying the multinational school system and their integration into the common imperial social space. Based on archival documents, the formation and development of primary schools in the region is shown. Information on the number of schools and the number of students, the characteristics of the types of educational institutions, the conditions of their maintenance and activities are given. It was determined that the variety of types of schools, the inconsistency of provisions and charters made it difficult to guide them. Particular attention is paid to the territorial, climatic factors, lack of teaching staff, which had a great influence on the formation and development of the educational system in the region. It is concluded that, despite a number of specific problems, primary public education in the Yakutsk region developed as an integral part of the all-Russian educational process.

The relevance of the study is due to the practical need to study the historical experience of interaction between secular and religious structures in Russia in the process of implementing state national policy. The article analyzes the problem of building state-confessional relations in the Siberian region at a turning point - during the civil war. Attention is paid to the religious policy of the provisional Siberian governments during the revolutionary transformations of the early 20th century. The results of a comparative analysis of the implementation peculiarities of the religious policy by successively different governments during 1917-1919 are presented. The novelty of the research lies both in the topic itself and in the previously unexplored source base. Previously unexplored materials from the archival storage of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East (RSHA FE) have been put into circulation. The implementation of the research concept was facilitated by historical-comparative, comparative, analytical research methods. The results achieved in the process of analyzing the documents of the archival storage of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East indicate the pragmatic approach of the provisional Siberian governments to issues of ideology, including religious. The conclusion is made about the striving of the provisional governments to subordinate religious structures to the interests of the secular authorities.

A detailed biography of a prominent Russian revolutionary, statesman of the USSR A. A. Solts (1873-1945) is laid down for the first time in the article. It is reported that before the revolution he was known for his publication work, the publication of a whole series of revolutionary issues. It is noted that it was during this period that his circle of communication was formed, which included such famous revolutionary figures as F. E. Dzerzhinsky, brothers M. I. and B. I. Goldman, I. V. Stalin and many others. The article clarifies his date of birth, in details and accurately covers the circumstances of his education at Vilna Gymnasium and at St. Petersburg University. The content of his pre-revolutionary activity, including his relationship during this period with I. V. Stalin, is revealed. The author draws attention to the fact that after the revolution, Solts continues to work in the central Bolshevik publications, and later becomes one of the leaders of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate. Based on archival data, his activities in this body of Soviet power, the role of the inspectorate in the formation of the USSR, as well as in the formation of punitive and repressive organs of Soviet power is described in the article. His attempts to uphold the principles of socialist legality are described. His confrontation with Y. Vyshinsky is shown.

The purpose of the study is to update and historiographically summarize publications devoted to the study of the characteristics of the pedagogical and educational activities of Russian emigrant musicians in the United States during the first wave of Russian emigration (1918 - late 1930s), as well as its consequences. The sources of this work were a variety of scientific publications - dissertations, monographs, articles, essays. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the fact that, to date, no attempt has been made in the domestic and foreign science of their historiographic generalization. In the course of the study, the following scientific methods were used: theoretical interdisciplinary analysis and synthesis, systemic and structural-functional analysis, comparative-historical, comparative historiographic analysis, historical-typological, etc. In the work, a historiographic generalization of publications by domestic and foreign authors on the problem of the preservation and dissemination of Russian (Soviet) musical and educational traditions in the United States during the first wave of Russian emigration was carried out. As a result of the study, the following modern scientific trends on this topic were highlighted: publications affecting the problem of preserving and disseminating domestic traditions of church singing education; works devoted to the development of Russian traditions of musical enlightenment and general musical education; studies aimed at studying the pedagogical heritage of graduates of domestic conservatories (violinists, composers, pianists).

The article is devoted to the specifics of studying the industrial labour force of Russia in the 1920s - 1930s in Russian historiography. The various stages of study from the 1920s through the 1930s and up to the last years are concerned. The relevance of the study is due to several factors. These include contradictions in the assessments of Bolshevik modernization of the 1920s and 1930s; projected labour force shortages in modern Russia; as well as the existing labour force shortage in industry at the moment. This determines the relevance of studying the historical period, which was characterized by the most acute personnel problems in the country. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that in modern Russian historiography there is no holistic, integrated view of the problems of the labour force potential formation of Russian industry in the 1920s and 1930s. It is noted that there is no research aimed at analyzing the historiography of these problems. The main stages of the study of industrial labour force are highlighted. The analysis of scientific works correlated with each stage of the study of the topic is performed. The problems and methodology of each stage are considered. A review of a wide range of scientific papers both articles and thesis is presented.