The study is devoted to the religious vocabulary in the dialects of the Old Believers in order to identify confessional and dialectal characteristics. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time a description of the religious vocabulary of the Old Believers-chapels of Latin America is carried out. A review of scientific literature has been carried out, which describes various aspects of the study of the religious vocabulary of the Russian language, including dialects. The relevance of the work is due to the need for theoretical comprehension and differentiation of the concepts of “religious vocabulary” and “confessional vocabulary”. The author’s definition of the term “religious vocabulary” as a hyperonym in relation to the terminology related to the sphere of religion is given. The material was written texts of the Old Believer Danila Zaitsev. Semantic and contextual analysis, comparative analysis of the semantics of Old Believer religious terminology relative to Christian terminology, as well as the linguo-theological method were selected as research methods. A new approach to the classification of religious vocabulary is proposed. It is concluded that four groups are distinguished in the vocabulary of Old Believer’s dialects: common vocabulary in a religious sense; common Christian vocabulary in confessional discourse; confessional vocabulary as a marker of a specific confession; confessional and dialectal vocabulary in Old Believer dialects.

The experience of collecting and systematizing scientific sources from different humanitarian fields, united by a common theme — values in the modern youth environment are described in the article. This content brings the article closer to the genre of an interdisciplinary bibliographic review. The practical task of the review is to prepare a bibliographic reference manual for publication. The selection of scientific publications was based on key axiological concepts, as well as on the idea of youth as a demographic and sociocultural group of people from 14 to 30 years old, on the way to becoming psychophysiological maturity and socialization. Conclusions of a theoretical nature are connected with the identification of general patterns of development of youth axiological issues: consideration of values within the framework of individual types (moral, political, religious, family, etc.); the predominance of works devoted to the study of the mutual influence of values and the sociocultural environment; the predominant interest of scientists in the study of spiritual, moral and socio-political values; the tendency of the last 5 years to highlight the values of communication and information as an independent object of axiological research. The practical task of compiling a bibliographic manual is solved in the form of determining the main principle of rubrication, which is the subject-thematic (typological) approach.

A semantic analysis of inscriptions on T-shirts (slogans) as elements of everyday discourse is provided in the article. Attention is paid to slogans that convey meanings significant in youth communication. The scientific novelty of the presented work lies in the fact that for the first time the features of slogans placed on clothes are revealed, their content, pragmatic functions and lexical-semantic features, as well as the correlation of slogans with the linguistic personality of the owner of a T-shirt with an inscription are considered. The author revealed that the basic pragmatic functions of slogans are self-presentation, appeal and shocking. Each of these functions has a number of sub-functions. Self-presentation is the leading pragmatic function. It has been proved that slogans are important components of the modern socio-cultural environment, integral elements of the communication process, verbal markers of the peculiarities of a linguistic personality. The key features of the linguistic personality of a young man who implements communication through a slogan on clothes are openness to social contacts, demonstration of personal qualities, attitude towards others and towards society as a whole, social activity, dedication, unconventional worldview, innovative thinking.

The ways of explication of evidentiality in analytical articles of the English-language press are investigated. 30 articles of newspapers “The Washington Post”, “The Guardian”, “The Independent” for 2021 are analyzed. The classification of evidential values is presented on the basis of two indicators: the source of information and its degree of reliability. Three types of evidentiality have been identified: direct evidentiality (there is a clear indication of the source of information); impersonal evidentiality (lack of an identified source of information); author’s evidentiality (based on the author’s conclusions). The results of the study showed a significant superiority of direct evidentiality (74 %), realized through the precise indication of the source of information and the use of the author’s “we”. It was revealed that impersonal evidentiality is not typical for an analytical article (6 %). This is due to its specific characteristics: the desire for objectivity and transparency of the data provided. It is noted that this type of evidentiality is realized through adverbs, indicating an anonymous source and using collective nouns. It is shown that the author’s evidentiality is found in 20 % of cases and is realized through filler words, main sentences like that means, adverbs, impersonal sentences using verbs of perception, constructions “to be + adjective with a probability value”, modal verbs.

The article is devoted to the description of text structures based on a combination ‘v lyubom sluchaye’ (any way). The analysis was carried out on the material of the texts of the newspaper subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The relevance of the study is due to a multidimensional approach to describing the textual nature of connectivity, including the use of a cognitive-semantic approach to the study of a text from the standpoint of the speaker’s intention, which is consistent with the anthropocentric paradigm of modern linguistics. Within this paradigm, special attention should be paid to transitional linguistic units that occupy an intermediate position between official and significant lexemes and are used by the speaker to form a certain semantic task into a text structure, defined in the article through the concept of a text structure. As an example of such a unit, the combination ‘v lyubom sluchaye’ (any way) is used. It is shown that at a certain position in the text on the border of the utterance, the combination performs the function of a text clip, forms standard text blocks. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of scenarios and models for the presentation of information on the material of newspaper discourse texts. The results of the modality analysis of the of right side the of the structure, which determines the explication of one of the two meanings of the clip ‘free choice’ and ‘universality’ is presented in the article. It is described how the pragmatic potential of the combination is realized in the structure of the textual construction ‘v lyubom sluchaye’ (any way), depending on the nature of the alternative circumstances of the left side of the structure (options, conditions, opinions, assumptions).

The communicative-pragmatic effects in the generation and functioning of new phenomena in the Russian neological word formation of the latest period is discussed in the article. It informs about nonderivatives, created according to conventional and / or nonconventional models. It is shown that the specific intentions of the speaker and the addressee, their communicative needs, nontrivial topics of communication and the environment of speech, the features of the interaction of communicants, their communication strategies and tactics, etc. stand behind the formation of nonderivatives. Particular attention is paid to the following linguo-pragmatic mechanisms with the participation of nonderivatives: operations with semantic and pragmatic presuppositions, operations with inferences and implicatures of discourse, models for the implementation of conditions for the success of a speech act, the generation of indirect speech acts and speech reproduction of communicative strategies de dicto and de re use, contexts of using metalinguistic operators. The emphasis is made on the fact that the use of derivatives leads to semantic compression, the semantic capacity of the entire expression due to the actualization of various kinds of implicit information. The authors come to the conclusion that new formations in modern Russian speech testify to social attitudes, value priorities and speech-behavioral stereotypes of the speakers of the modern Russian language.

A generalization of the experience of research by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences V.I. Chernyshev (1867-1949) on Russian punctuation is presented. The polemic of V.I. Chernyshev with contemporary scientists A.M. Peshkovsky and G.O. Vinokur on the problems of punctuation is considered. The role of V.I. Chernyshev in the development of punctuation theory in Russian linguistics is shown. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that V.I. Chernyshev’s punctuation concept, which is the first experience of a functional approach to punctuation, is fully described. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the analysis of segregation as a punctuation phenomenon is assessed. We found textual explanations for those uses of punctuation marks that are significant for the author’s style. The textual understanding of punctuation is revealed, the main principle in teaching punctuation is discussed. According to V.I. Chernyshev, the choice of a punctuation mark is based on semantics, correlated with the tradition of expressing a certain meaning by means of punctuation in the book language and with the aesthetic task of the author. V.I. Chernyshev’s ideas about the interaction of the author’s stylistics and textual criticism in the work of the editor on the punctuation of the artist of the word are described. Special attention is paid to individual examples of V.I. Chernyshev’s analysis of the use of punctuation marks in the works of A.S. Pushkin.

The means and methods of subjective deixis, participating in the organization of the forms of subjective-author's narration is analyzed in the article. Their role in the formation of text interpretation strategies is determined. The relevance of the problem is associated with the peculiarities of the research material — the texts of the early prose of B. L. Pasternak, the montage of which is manifested in the alternation of points of view, the nonlinearity of the structure. This complicates the process of the reader's interpretation. The use of methods of continuous sampling, descriptive, contextual and interpretive types of analysis made it possible to reveal the specifics of the linguistic means of subjective deixis, the system of deictic relations. The analysis showed that the absence of marked transitions between exegetical (third-person narration) and diegetic (first-person narration) narrators leads to the fact that the deictic functional is simultaneously assigned to a complex of linguistic means used within the framework of one utterance or text fragment. These are personal pronouns and discursive elements that activate the reader’s attention. Inconsistency in the use of forms of subjective-author’s narration leads to the formation of hybrid models. It reflects the process of the author’s search, an attempt to establish deictic parity (synchronicity of perception) between the author, character, reader and “observer”, forms new relations in the author-reader system.

This author’s development of the concept sphere model of FASHION INDUSTRY is presented in the article. Lexical units, nominations of objects, subjects and events of the fashion industry, as well as text fragments obtained from modern English-language artistic discourse, media and blogosphere are used as empirical material. The relevance of the study is due to the high rate of transformation of this conceptual field under the influence of a number of extralinguistic factors that make certain changes in the lexical composition of the language, the value dominants of society and the mechanisms of their verbalization. It is shown in the paper that the structure of the concept sphere is anthropocentric, as it is organized around the concept PARTICIPANTS. This concept is not only interconnected with other components of the FASHION INDUSTRY cognitive space — OBJECTS, EVENTS and PROPERTIES — but also determines their semantic content and linguistic and cultural specificity. Particular attention is paid to the actualization of the PROPERTIES component incorporated into other concepts.  Cognitive modeling of the structural and content parameters of the concept sphere made it possible to determine the most highlighted value dominants in the current discourse: innovation, comfort, universality, democracy, mediation with the transition to digital format, economic feasibility and environmental friendliness.

The specificity of the image of China in the works of the poet-young emigrant V. Pereleshin is examined in the article. It is argued that China is represented in Pereleshin’s poetry in different aspects: it is the nature of the country, and culture, and literature. The relevance of the study is due to the need to identify the specifics of the embodiment of the image of China in the poetry of the Russian emigration. From this point of view, the author analyzes the motive-thematic complex, the system of images, allusions and reminiscences associated with the depiction of China in the poet’s work. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that such a feature of Pereleshin’s poetics as the principle of “translation” from the language of one culture into the language of another is analyzed in detail, the specifics of the relationship between “friend” and “foe” in the poet’s work are shown. The authors come to the conclusion that V. Pereleshin’s lyrics are characterized by immersion in the world of China: they are filled with Chinese landscapes, sights, images of customs and pages of Chinese history. At the same time, the polylogue of cultures is embodied in Pereleshin’s poetry: a deep interest in this country is combined with adherence to the traditions of Russian lyric poetry of the 19^th — early 20^th centuries and an ap-peal to the images and motives of world culture.

The article is devoted to the topic of the otherworldlyness in the collection of stories by Lyudmila Ulitskaya “About the body of the soul” (2019). Attention is paid to the diversity of the realization of the otherworldly category in the cycle of stories “Girlfriends” and “About the body of the soul.” The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the collection “On the Body of the Soul” is the least researched collection of Ulitskaya’s stories. It is noted that the stories of the collection highlight one or another type of bodily perception — visual, tactile, auditory or olfactory. In the collection “On the Body of the Soul” L. Ulitskaya models the other world, playing out various options for the transition to an-other being. The author of the article concludes that the stories of the “Girlfriends” cycle are focused on the permeability of the boundaries of the otherworldlyness, the possibility of communication between the worlds, and the stories of the cycle “On the Body of the Soul” of the same name with the collection reconstruct various models of the otherworld itself. It is noted that the title of the collection “On the Body of the Soul” combines not only the material and spiritual, this worldly and otherworldly, but also the personal-human and divine. It is shown that both cycles create a single whole due to cross plots, themes, motives, the central of which is the transition to the otherworldlyness.

The issue of reconstructing the image of Peter I on the pages of “Tobolsk Gubernskiye Vedomosti” is considered. The newspaper materials selected for the study reflect public opinion about the personality and transformations of Peter I and at the same time represent the source of Peter I image formation in the mass consciousness of the “Tobolsk Gubernskiye Vedomosti” readers. The purpose of the research is to study examples of the construction of the image of Peter I on the pages of the newspaper “Tobolsk Gubernskie Vedomosti”. Literary and comparative-historical approaches to the study of this problem are used. The analysis of the texts of newspaper materials published from 1857 to 1909 is carried out, and cases of mentioning the name of Peter the Great in the context of the events of all-Russian and local history are described.  The authors concluded that the newspaper participated in the preservation and consolidation of the name of the tsar and the events of his reign in the historical memory of Siberians. Examples of the formation of the image of an ideal ruler through various news reports of the newspaper “Tobolsk Gubernskiye Vedomosti” is considered in the study. It is proved that the newspaper supported the myth of Peter I as an idol, an enlightened autocrat, under whose reign Russia achieved prosperity and power. The publications of various genres reflect a positive attitude towards the tsar, as this corresponded to the policy of the official printed organ — the strengthening of monarchical ideals in the mass conscious-ness.

The question of the evolution of epistolary prose is considered on the example of fragments of D.I. Kharms. Attention is paid to communication aspects using a linguo-semiotic approach. The results of the analysis of the epistolary passage of 1933 in comparison with other samples of imitative literary letters are presented. The question is raised about the similarity of the perception of the absurdity of D.I. Kharms and the absurdity in the Gogol tradition. The author, in particular, dwells on the theme of marriage and fairy tale elements in D.I. Kharms and N.V. Gogol. The emphasis is on the fact that D.I. Kharms demonstrated the failure of communication, including epistolary communication, while perceiving the surrounding world as absurd. To study an untitled epistolary fragment, among other things, a technique is used that fixes violations of the postulates of normal communication, which was proposed by O.G. Revzina and I. I. Revzin. As a result, it turns out that the artistic means of repetition used by D.I. Kharms violates both the postulate of the information content of normal communication and the postulate of the incompleteness of the description, which makes an effective epistolary dialogue impossible. The method of multiple repetition casts doubts on the effectiveness of the postulate of semantic coherence.

The article is devoted to the poetics of the path chronotope in the Yakut heroic epic. The relevance of the topic is due to the need for an in-depth study of the spatio-temporal organization of the path in the olonkho, in particular in the Vilyui epic tradition, to which the olonkho S.N. Karataev “Bogatyr Tong Saar” belongs. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time the poetics of the path chronotope in the Yakut epic is subjected to systemic analysis, and for the first time the peculiarities of the path chronotope in the Vilyui epic tradition are revealed. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the chronotope of the path occupies the most important place not only in the chronotope of the olonkho, but in general in its plot-compositional organization. The structure of the path has been determined, consisting of three main parts: the departure of the hero on the path, the process of the path itself, the completion of the path (the return of the hero to his homeland), in which various plot motives are realized. Particular attention is paid to the plot-forming role of the path chronotope in the olonkho, its relationship with the system of characters, poetical and stylistic means. It has been established that the leading links of the poetics of the Yakut heroic epic have inextricable interconnections in solving the main ideological and aesthetic problems.

The features of G. Böll’s comprehension of the problem of “humiliated and insulted” heroes in the story “The Burning Ones” are analyzed in the context of the literary influence on this work of the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”. The method of comparative historical analysis is used. The relevance of the study is due to the need for a comprehensive and diverse study of the literary dialogue between H. Böll and F.M. Dostoevsky. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the story of G. Böll “Burning” considered in the article, became the object of study in Russian literary criticism for the first time. It has been established that the German writer develops the idea of the Russian classic about the spiritual transformation of morally fallen characters through redemptive suffering, the healing power of love, and turning to religion. Between the artistic worlds of the works under consideration, parallels are also revealed at the level of individual images (Sonya and Susanna) and motives (resurrecting love). Comparison of the poetological features of the story “Burning” and the novel “Crime and Punishment” not only reveals the similarity of the aesthetic attitudes of the two authors in these works, but also helps to determine a number of main directions in the reception of the artistic experience of F.M. Dostoevsky, developed in the further work of G. Böll.

The characteristic features of the trickster “tipsy lady”, formed in the folklore of taxi drivers, are investigated. The authors consider the modern type of rogue character, who plays the role of a tipsy taxi passenger and is a comic asocial character that performs both destructive and creative functions. Based on the analysis of the authentic material of urban folklore (the folklore of taxi drivers), the authors of this study for the first time identified the main features that determine this type. It is shown that by introducing dis-harmony and chaos into the “foreign” environment (the sphere of “habitation” of taxi drivers), the trickster “tipsy lady” tries to assert herself in it. It is noted that the character of oral stories and tales is characterized by unwillingness and inability to change her behavior that violates generally accepted moral norms. It is argued that the trickster “tipsy lady” performs the function of a conductor between social worlds. It has been established that she demonstrates the animal nature (lust) inherent in the representatives of the “primitive world”. It has been proven that the trickster “tipsy lady” is in a state of play and, finally, combines contradictory qualities — defiant self-confidence, on the one hand, and defenselessness, on the other. In their work, the authors of the article used historical-genetic, structural-typological methods, as well as a multi-level functional analysis of the folklore text.

The results of the analysis of “urban text” phenomenon in the lyrics of the modern Evenk poetess Varvara Danilova are presented. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern literary criticism in the heritage of the indigenous peoples of the North. The novelty of the work is seen in the consideration of the features of the “urban text” creation in the V. Danilova’s lyrics in the projection on the poetic experience of the Silver Age. The theoretical basis was the works of V. N. Toporov, Yu. M. Lotman, S. P. Gurin, N. V. Schmidt, and others. The material for the analysis was the most representative poems of Danilova’s collections: “Only you ...” (1992—1996), “Heavenly Hell” (2005), “Lunar Legend” (2010), containing direct or indirect indications of the presence of “urban” semantics in the title, at the level of motive-shaped structure or in subtext. It was found that the “urban text” in the lyrics of the Evenk poetess is represented both by concrete cultural and historical realities, and by a certain conventional topos, not tied either to time or space. The poets of the Silver Age, belonging to different literary trends, became the creative guidelines for the author. It is proved that V. Danilova created a unique author’s model of the “urban text”, in which symbolist, acmeistic and futuristic poetic experiences and national-cultural vision, conditioned by the ethnic authenticity of the author, were intertwined.

The features of the organization of obituaries created by V. S. Solovyov from 1883 to 1900 is considered. The specific traits of the author’s strategy in writing mourning texts are revealed. The relevance of the article is due to the importance of V. S. Solovyov for Russian culture, as well as the prospects for research that will reveal the genre and compositional specifics of obituaries as a special fact of the culture of creating post-humous texts in Russia in the second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the fact that for the first time in Solovyov studies, the obituaries of the famous Russian philosopher are considered in aggregate, the author’s attitude to death and important aspects of his understanding of the place of man in the world are revealed. The relationship of these works with the rest of V. S. Solovyov and genre features of these obituaries is determined. According to Solovyov, the main qualities of a truly spiritual person are revealed: this is a person who has exceptional qualities of the heart, is not always understood by society, but who, through his deeds, embodies the main human destiny — serving Christian truth. He concludes that the obituaries of V. S. Solovyov reflect his system of views and semantically resonate with other works of the author.

The problem of interaction between the state and religious communities, Orthodox and Buddhist, in Buryatia during the imperial period is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the policy of the Russian state on the one hand and of the Orthodox Church on the other hand in relation to the Buryats are presented in the article. The objective of the study is to identify the ways and mechanisms through which this ethnic group was included in the Russian community, ensuring the interests of the empire in the east of the country. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of the topic of interreligious interaction in the multi-confessional community, which, in particular, is the population of ethnic Buryatia for several centuries. The author dwells on the interrelated aspects of the surrounding activities as a mechanism for the Russification of the Gentiles and the simultaneous desire of the authorities to bring the Buddhist clergy under their control, legitimized by special legislative measures. As a result of the study, it has been proved that the state policy of institutionalizing Buddhism played an important role in the formation of the Russian identity of the Buryats. It is argued that this was largely aided by the loyalty of the Buddhist clergy to the monarchy and the state. It is shown that Orthodox propaganda had only a formal success, expressed in the number of persons who were baptized.

In this article, based on published, archival and personal field materials of the authors (2009—2021), a brief ethnographic sketch of the Sart-Kalmyks of Kyrgyzstan is given. Sart-Kalmyks (Issyk-Kul, or Karakol Kalmyks / Kalmaks) are a relatively small Mongol-speaking people of Oirat origin who practice Islam. The article briefly examines the ethnonym “Sart-Kalmyk”, the history of the study of the Sart-Kalmyks, ethnic his-tory, ethnic composition, population, language, writing, economy, material and spiritual culture of the Sart-Kalmyks in the late XIX — early XXI centuries. Despite the paucity of sources, the authors tried to restore the ethnic origin and ethnic composition of the Sart-Kalmyks, which consists of more than twenty clans. During the expedition of 2021, the authors of the article found a copy of the manuscript of the “Kyrgyz-Sart-Kalmyk-Russian Dictionary”, compiled by S. S. Nasynbatov in the 1990s. It is shown that in the Sart-Kalmyk language words related to Buddhist vocabulary were found, which is evidence that they once included Buddhists. Particular attention is paid to the changes taking place in the modern life of the Sart-Kalmyks of Kyrgyzstan. It is concluded that the long-term residence of the Sart-Kalmyks in a different ethnic environment actively influenced the loss of their native language, writing, traditions and led to ethnic and ethno-cultural changes.

The article deals with the history of the Baghdad Pact — a kind of symbol of the “cold war” in the middle of the last century in the Middle East, which Turkey be-came an active promoter of. The author traces the development of events that caused a great resonance in society. It is shown that the growing protest mood found its response on the pages of the “Akis” weekly, the first neutral democratic print organ in Turkey, which officially did not belong to any political party. The relevance of the article is seen in the fact that the well-known modern changes in the Middle East policy of Turkey, aimed primarily at taking into account the national interests of the country, originate from regional events in the Middle East in the 50s of the last century. It is argued that the materials of “Akis” in a specific context, as a kind of lessons from the past, make it possible to understand and appreciate many of the nuances of modern difficult Arab-Turkish relations, the roots of which go back to events that were directly related to the Baghdad Pact.

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern Russian historiography of criminal and political exile to Siberia. The authors consistently consider the main directions of development of post-Soviet studies, note, first of all, the great interest of historians in various aspects of the penitentiary policy and practice of the empire in Siberia, the features of the imprisonment of political and criminal prisoners. Further, a sharp drop in the attention of specialists to the history of the exile of the Social Democrats, and above all, the Bolsheviks, is stated, and vice versa — a significant increase in works devoted to the stay in exile of representatives of the Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists. The publications on the history of the exile to Siberia of the Decembrists are analyzed, the content of the discussion about the evolution of their worldview, the role of “noble revolutionaries” in the political his-tory of Russia is conveyed. The authors also briefly analyze the main directions of publications of the Irkutsk collection of scientific articles “Siberian Link”, created back in 1973. It is concluded that the history of criminal and political exile to Siberia as a scientific direction in the post-Soviet period continues to develop successfully, acquiring new facets, replenished with specific studies and authors.

The issue of the specifics of the “center — regions” relations of the European island regions (Faroe, Aland, Canary, Balearic, Azores, Sicily, Sardinia, Madeira), identified on the basis of ultra-peripheral criteria, is considered. Attention is paid to the formation of a belt of ultra-peripheral regions in the pan-European space. The results of a comparative analysis of the expanding stages of the autonomy of the studied territories are presented. The question is raised about the institutional and constitutional design of the special status of regions. Particular attention is paid to the achieved breadth of autonomous competencies and powers. The novelty of the study is seen in the formulation of the research problem from a new research perspective — the concept of ultraperipherality. The author dwells on the consideration of bilateral relations at several levels of political interaction: the ultraperiphery is the national “center”, the ultraperiphery regions are the EU. The relevance of the study is due to modern political and other processes taking place in the European Union under the influence, including the processes of autonomization of regions and their emergence to a new level of political influence. A classification of regions is proposed according to several criteria related to their autonomy and the acquisition of self-government. It is proved that the expansion of autonomy is one of the components of a special approach to the development of the region and the satisfaction of its needs.

The features of the formation and development of wire broadcasting in the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the second half of the 1930s are analyzed. On the basis of previously introduced into scientific circulation and new archival documents, the authors prove that in the context of the organizational and technical strengthening of radio, the development of mass-political and cultural-educational propaganda, the state has made serious efforts to give the auditory means of communication the most important role of political and cultural education of citizens, increase their educational level and social activity. It is argued that at the end of the 1930s, the activities of the Republican Radio Committee for Radio and Broadcasting under the Council of People’s Commissars of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were characterized by its growing importance in the field of self-education of citizens, enlightenment and cultural and political propaganda. It is shown that serious work was carried out to create an effective broadcasting structure and differentiation of programs, special attention was paid to the organization of radio propaganda in the Buryat language. In describing the experience of the first five years of radio broadcasting in the republic, issues of staffing the radio committee, its close work with the department of cultural agitation and propaganda of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks are touched upon. It is noted that the most important results of this period were an increase in the volume of wire broadcasting, an improvement in the content of political, musical, literary, dramatic and other types of broadcasting.

Peculiarities of paperwork of the Tobolsk ecclesiastical consistory in cases of divorce of peasants due to adultery of their wives in the second half of the 19^th — early 20^th centuries are considered. Documents stored in the State Archives in Tobolsk testify to the presence of a number of stages of office work on each issue. The basic requirements for the commencement of proceedings in cases of divorce due to adultery (treason) are determined. The obstacles on the way to divorce among peasants in the second half of the 19^th — early 20^th centuries are established. The author divided them into two groups: errors in the provision of a package of documents and shortcomings in record keeping in the Tobolsk province. The relevance of the study is due to the existence of currently acute social problems caused by a large number of family breakups, the main of which is population decline. Referring to the history of divorce proceedings and the methods used to reconcile spouses (admonition by parish priests) can be useful for rethinking the methods of resolving and preventing marital conflicts, as well as for revealing certain aspects of the history of office work of institutions.

The question of the peculiarities of the social institutions of the Shapsugs, Natukhais and Abadzekhs — three groups of Circassians is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that this problem is of interest for Caucasian studies and for solving theoretical problems of history and ethnography. The novelty of the work is seen in the use of archival documents, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time and in a new interpretation of already known sources. It is proved that some features of the social structure of these groups developed in those times when they lived in the mountains and had the opportunity not to submit to the power of the princes. It is shown that other features were the result of social conflicts at the end of the 18th — the first half of the 19th centuries. The question is raised about the reasons for the victory of the peasantry in these conflicts. It is noted that these include kinship and community solidarity, as well as the widespread distribution of firearms. Particular attention is paid to such social institutions of the Shapsugs, Natukhais and Abadzekhs as “brotherhoods” based on consanguinity and on the oath of mutual assistance. Their role in the consolidation of the peasantry and the strengthening of its influence is revealed. It is argued that thanks to the “brotherhoods” the number and territory of these three groups greatly expanded. The author also reveals the role of rural communities and their unions at different levels in the political system.

The dastan “Ildan and Goldan”, the plot of which, according to the author of the article, was not widespread in the Siberian-Tatar folklore is considered in the article. It is noted that, unlike other das-tans, it is not present in the well-known col-lection of Siberian-Tatar folklore by V. V. Radlov. In this connection, the author assumes that this may be a literary work created by a specific author in the dastan genre, such as, for example, “Kalevala”, “Ural Batyr”, etc. The author proves that the plot of the work, based on historical events that took place on the territory of Western Siberia, the geographical names present in the dastan, a large number of words and speech turns characteristic of the Siberian-Tatar language, indicate that the dastan was recorded among the Siberian Tatars or by the author of the work is a native of the Siberian-Tatar environment. It is shown that the key place in the dastan, which tells about the events that took place in the Middle Ages, is given to the history of the Ishim Khanate. Parallels are revealed between the plots described in the dastan and in the Siberian chronicles. It is concluded that the authors of these works could use the same sources.