The question of the semantic motivation of denominative relatives — significant units in the prepositional function is raised in the article. The influence on the volume and structure of the lexical part of the meaning of denominative relatives and their adverbial homonyms of the same semes inherited from the deriving name is comprehended. Peculiarities of semantization of adverbial and prepositional meanings are considered on the examples of relatives as a result and bypassing. It is proved that the ambiguity of ideas about semantic motivation largely determines the non-systematic fixation of homonymous service and significant units in dictionaries: adverbs are interpreted mainly through only one synonym and do not have a descriptive component in the definition, while prepositions are characterized by more detailed descriptive-synonymous definitions, including at least two partial synonyms. The analysis of dictionary entries and materials of the National Corpus of the Russian allows us to conclude that denominative relatives have a more complexly organized lexical part of the meaning than homonymous adverbs with the same generating base. It has been established that with the expansion of the system of meanings of a service language unit, there is a simplification of the seme composition of each individual meaning.

The results of the speech expression study of ideas about motherhood in Russian dialects of the south of the Tyumen region are systematized. Dialect materials are accompanied by linguistic and cultural commentary, taking into account the contextual use of vocabulary. As a result of the interpretation of verbal markers of motherhood, a range of situations that acquire a linguistic assessment in rural discourse (names denoting the state of pregnancy, childbirth and child care, nominations of an illegitimate and adopted child, aspects of education) are revealed, the nature of lexical and phraseological units chosen by informants for designations of certain concepts (dialect / all-Russian, evaluative / neutral, etc.). Concepts of motherhood are implemented in a rich and detailed vocabulary, characterized by a plurality of names for the same realities, differing in the ways of semantic identification. Most of the nominations are characterized by a transparent internal form, which makes it possible to actualize the prevailing value attitudes and stereotypes in the word.

A memoir-type narrative as a structured text in a certain way, represented by at least two types of oral story: (1) a repeatedly reproduced narrative (a story about the war) and (2) an unprepared segment of a speech (a story about life in Irkutsk during the existence of the USSR and after its collapse) is considered in the article. The first variety in the scientific literature was called the “record” story. In the course of comparing the two fragments related to the mentioned types of narration, the phonetic, lexical and grammatical means used by the subject of speech and reflecting the specifics of the story-“record” on the theme of war are characterized. Thanks to an integrated approach to the linguistic features of the narrative, detailed conclusions are drawn regarding its organization. It has been established that at different linguistic levels the story-“record” has certain distinctive features, the most important of which are the use of functionally loaded prosodic means and the almost complete absence of speech failures, the use of a large number of bookish lexical elements, as well as grammatical structures characteristic of the official business language, written speeches. It is proved that all the identified features allow the speaker to give the features of a collectively significant memory to personal impressions of the war.

The subject of research in this article is the specificity of the category of discursive situationality, which determined the problematics of the novel “Bleak House” by Ch. Dickens (1853). The purpose of the article is to build a typology of situationality (the situationality is prototypical, intertextual, intentional, coherent) and to identify the means of linguistic representation of the category of situationality in a text that functions in the conditions of interaction of two discourses — legal and artistic. Language techniques representing various types of situationality are divided into textual ones (“detention” technique, interruption of narrative angles, prolonged syntax, etc.), lexical-semantic ones, including a class of stylistic figures of speech (metaphor, precedent name, onomastic allusion, comparison, oxymoron, irony, sarcasm, emotive syntax, etc.) and style, reflecting the inclusion of elements of official business style in artistic speech (verbal nouns, verb-nominal combinations, etc.). Elements of the official business style of speech are expressed in the speeches of the characters during the interrogation, in court speeches, in the business correspondence of the heroes of the novel, and they are also fragmentarily woven into the author’s narrative (they are highlighted with quotation marks). The study emphasizes that the category of discursive situationality is manifested at all levels of the implementation of the narrative model of artistic and legal discourse.

The features of the situation of wine drinking, its individual author’s interpretation in D. S. Merezhkovsky’s novel “Peter and Alexei” are considered. The relevance of the study is connected, firstly, with its inclusion in the circle of studies related to the study of the author’s idiostyle, and secondly, with determining the influence of the views of the author-symbolist on the representation of the details of everyday life, in particular the situation of drinking wine. The material for the research was a selection of contexts containing Bacchic vocabulary. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that this novel is considered from the point of view of the representation of everyday values in the context of a historiosophical novel. While traditionally the novel is defined as a symbolist one, its importance in expressing the religious and philosophical views of the author is emphasized. It was revealed that the inclusion of words denoting the name of the dishes (chan, ushat, flyaga, etc.) in the picture of Peter’s “most drunken cathedrals” gives wine-drinking features of inclusiveness and scale. Attention is paid to the symbolic reading of wine, and it is also noted that the sacred and the profane are in constant relationship and often have a Bacchic interpretation. It is indicated that vocabulary with the semantics of death is introduced into the wine-drinking scenes, which sets a symbolic interpretation and explicates the author's assessment.

The analysis of some of the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in 2020 in the Republic of Buryatia is presented in the article. A feature of this survey is a large sample (1289 respondents of Buryat and Russian nationality) and a wide coverage of the problems of the functioning of the Buryat language. A comparative analysis with the results of previous surveys showed that the level of proficiency in the native language of the Buryats and the degree of its use in various areas of communication continues to decline. A positive and tolerant attitude to the study of the Buryat language on the part of the Russian population was revealed, while at the same time a low assessment of its “necessity” by both Russians and Buryats. A causal relationship has been established between the compulsory teaching of the Buryat language in schools and an increase in the number of people who read and write in Buryat. It was revealed that when choosing a language of study, territorial motivation is the main one for Russians, for Buryats it is the motivation of ethnic identity. At the same time, the ethnoidentification factor has recently lost its significance, which is manifested in a high level of dual (ethno) linguistic identification and a decrease in the number of Buryats who consider the Buryat language to be their native language.

The aim of the work is to make a comparative analysis of the associative links of full-meaning words from the upper zone of the frequency list, compiled on the basis of a research corpus of blog texts in Russian, in a psycholinguistic experiment and the distributivesemantic model Global Vectors (GloVe), trained on this corpus. The relevance of the work is due to the need for a comprehensive study of the psychologically relevant meaning of the word. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that such an analysis is carried out taking into account the gender factor of the respondent / author of the text. The use of a set of methods for data mining (clustering, classification) and visualization of its results made it possible to establish the influence of gender on the composition of the semantic associates of the analyzed words (that is, words with close vectors in the distributive-semantic model) and the absence of such an effect in their associates recorded in the associative dictionary. As the study showed, distributivesemantic models and dictionary associative norms reflect different aspects of the psychologically relevant content of the word and should be used as complementary sources when modeling the psychologically relevant meaning of the word, taking into account the individual characteristics of the speaker, while conducting such an analysis it is advisable to use data mining methods.

The research is devoted to of A. Blok’s poem “The Twelve”. The novelty of the study lies in the application of a linguo-hermeneutic approach to the interpretation of the poem and the appeal to its insufficiently studied aspect — the ideologeme “Holy Russia”. The relevance of the work is due to the attention to the poem that has not weakened to date, due to both its content and the originality of the language. A review of the scientific literature on the selected issue is given, demonstrating a predominantly literary interest in the poem. The specificity of the linguistic hermeneutics of a literary text, focused on the maximum approximation to the author's intention, is briefly formulated. The necessity of addressing linguistic hermeneutics to biographical and cultural-historical materials is substantiated. The main research methods were structural-semantic analysis and analysis of intra-textual paradigmatic relations. It is shown that the opposition of Holy Russia and the new world is marked by various linguistic and figurative means. Semantically inverted intertextual connections between Petrukha and the Apostle Peter are demonstrated. It is concluded that Holy Russia is the only serious opponent of the new world. It is suggested that the transformed values of Holy Russia will become an element of the future Russian culture.

An analysis of the associative field “Politeness” based on the material of the project “Multilingual associative thesaurus of politeness” is presented in the article. The purpose of the study is to identify direct and indirect connections of the word politeness in the associative-verbal network of native English speakers. To achieve this goal, a free associative experiment was conducted with subsequent processing of the data obtained. Quantitative parameters were used to characterize the connections of the word politeness: the probability of activation of the combination “stimulus — reaction”, the probability of activation of the combination “reaction — stimulus”, the number of mediations, the index of the associative strength of mediation, the number of overlaps and the index of the associative strength of overlap. It has been experimentally established that the combination of politeness — manners has the highest probability of activation (18 %). The combination of manners — politeness turned out to be less relevant. The highest index of associative power of mediation was found for the combination politeness — good (0.0424), which has eleven intermediary words (behaviour, considerate, consideration, courteous, courtesy, decent, kind, manners, nice, smile, upbringing). The data of the free associative experiment indicate that the words politeness and courtesy are the closest in meaning. Eight common associates identified in the analysis of the “Politeness” and “Courtesy” fields are signs that determine the proximity of the psychologically relevant meaning of words.

The article is devoted to the analysis of various aspects of social relations of the late Soviet period, which found expression on the pages of the children’s magazine “Koster”. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time a model of social relations mediated by the Soviet media was built. The material of the study was the issues of the magazine “Koster” for 1970—1980 in the amount of 6 copies of 52 to 68 pages each. The study was carried out in line with discourse analysis using the techniques of rhetorical analysis. In the course of the study, aspects of social relations reflected in the magazine “Koster” and the topoi realizing them were identified. A classification of aspects of relations and their topoi is proposed: the relationship of a child with an adult (topoi of parental authority, upbringing, approval of a child by an adult), the relationship of a child and peers (a topos of mutual assistance), the relationship “child-state” (topoi of morality, patriotism, ideological education, state care about childhood), man and country (topoi of ideologization, patriotism, mutual assistance, labor, industrialization), interaction between man and nature (topoi of colonization, care, admiration), a person in a multinational country (topoi of friendliness), a country in the world (topoi of superiority, internationalism).

The cognitive and linguocultural aspects of metaphor implementation in Russian linguoculture are considered on the basis of figurative words and expressions in sports discourse. The novelty of the study lies in revealing the fact that more and more new conceptual areas are involved in presenting sporting events and building communication with reader: various terms of IT technologies, the world of TV series and computer games, while new stable systems of comparison begin to form: “sport” — “virtual computer world”, “sport” — “series”. The relevance of the study is confirmed by the use of terms from computer games and TV series that help to form an assessment of events or persons in the world of sports. It is noted that the study of metaphors is of great importance not only for the study of various types of discourse, but also for understanding the algorithms for mastering the picture of the world. At the same time, it is recognized that the main regular metaphors of sports discourse are based on the interaction of such conceptual areas as “sport” — “war”, “sport” — “show”, “sport” — “labor”. It is clarified that the focus of this article is on new conceptual areas that enrich and expand human understanding of sports

The problem of the analysis of polycode texts of mass communication, the functioning of which is determined by their collective authorship, as well as the active variation of their verbal and non-verbal components, while maintaining the plot-thematic, motive and character characteristics associated with specific genres of folk art, is considered. The relevance of such reflections is due to the fact that in the context of the development of Internet communications, the traditions of folk verbal creativity are gaining new life, including with the support of the technological capabilities of convergent media. The focus of this work is a corpus of texts that implement the motive of the ban on entering a certain territory. The analysis of polycode content in this article is carried out in the context of reflections on post-folklore as a special area of folk art of modern man, the distinctive properties of post-folklore texts and the practices of their linguistic analysis existing in modern science. It is shown that texts that have the characteristic properties of postmodernism culture (secondary, precedent, irony, game mode) and network culture (multimedia, intertextuality and interactivity) can be attributed to the field of network folklore and analyzed as Internet memes that continue the traditions of folk pictures, popular prints and other forms of creative polycode texts of non-author’s communication.

Citation is considered as a tool for genre differentiation of mass media texts. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of citation in the genres of “news report”, “analytical article” and “opinion” was carried out, which are texts with varying degrees of representation of the author’s assessment, which can be expressed, including by citation. A system of parameters has been developed, on the basis of which it would be possible to carry out genre differentiation of newspaper texts. It includes quotations, the type of verb introducing the quotation, the presence and nature of the additional construction, and the source of the quotation. The data obtained indicate that the analytical article is dominated by direct quotations introduced by neutral verbs. It is noted that official sources are most often used as a source of information, this corresponds to the genre’s desire for objectivity and impartiality. It is shown that in the genre of “opinion” quotations as interspersed with someone else’s text are rare; citation mainly performs evaluative and expressive functions, which is confirmed by a high percentage of segmented citations, as well as the prevalence of such sources of information as the collective and the media. It was revealed that citation in a news message meets such genre requirements as compressed volume, information compression and generalization.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the motif-figurative paradigm of the Silver Age poetess S. Parnok’s lyrics. The author’s attention is focused on the ways of stylistic representation of the world-modeling universals of the poetic world of S. Parnok, an important place among which belongs to the motive of the “liberated soul”. It is a starting point in the construction of the author’s picture of the world, in the center of which the path of the lyrical heroine to her soul underlies: its comprehension, acceptance of its contradictions and embodiment in a creative act. The novelty of the study is in the analysis of S. Parnok’s lyrics as an integral compositional and stylistic unity, structured by poetic leitmotifs. The relevance of the article is due to the appeal to the problematic field of research on poetic style. The authors made an attempt to deepen and expand scientific ideas about the stylistic phenomenon of women’s poetry of the Silver Age based on the analysis of S. Parnok’s lyrics. The conclusions of the study substantiate the semantic load and the functional role of the “liberated soul” motif in structuring the author’s poetic picture of the world. It is shown that the leading methods of its representation are metaphorization, epithets, including synesthetic ones, antithesis, oxymoron, at the level of syntactic organization — gradation, enjambment technique.

The reception of the works of William Shakespeare in the work of the poet and translator Vadim Shershenevich (1893—1942) is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the insufficient study of the reception of Shakespeare’s work in the legacy of Shershenevich. The novelty of the study lies in the reference to the little-known texts by Shershenevich, which are translations and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays for the early Soviet theater, as well as in understanding the specifics of the perception of these theater projects in the press of the 1920s—1930s. Particular attention is paid to archival documents, which make it possible to recreate in detail the landscape of the literary and theatrical process of that period. It is proved that Shershenevich became the author of adapted texts for three productions based on Shakespeare in pre-war Moscow: «Romeo and Juliet» at the Chamber Theater (1921), «Hamlet» in the version of A. Dumas at the «Romanesque» Theater (1923, work on the performance stopped in rehearsal time), “The Twins” based on the play “Twelfth Night” at the Moscow Operetta Theater (1939). The concept of two translation approaches in the work of V. Shershenevich is proposed: an accurate literary translation (this is how he translates «King John» and «Cymbeline») and an adapted translation for theatrical needs.

The question is raised about the terminological pluralism that exists in the paradigm of literary concepts related to the category of the mythological. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of differentiation in the interpretation of the concepts associated with the myth in the literature. Based on the totality of the considered studies, the authors propose their own version ofthe distinction between terms, which goes back to the specifics of the subject-object relations of the authorial and the mythological. The concepts of “myth”, “mythological”, “mythologism” and the processes of “demythologization” and “remythologization” associated with them are correlated with the logic of object domination over the level of the subject-author’s (personal) world-building intention. It is proved that the mythological in a work of art is characterized by structural and semantic isolation, as well as resistance to the influence of the individual author. It has been established that the formation of the neomythological, on the contrary, initially implies the aspiration of the author’s consciousness (subject) to build an artistic space in the logic of self-embodiment and axiologically oriented world-building. This determines the diversity of neomythological elements and the correlation of different cultural and philosophical layers, implicitly transformed by the author into neomyths, and it is proposed to define neomythologism not only as an artistic phenomenon, but also as a promising methodology for literary analysis. At the same time, the authors propose to distinguish between neo-mythological tendencies and the postmodern experience of creating “author’s myths”.

The influence of Goethe’s work on Lipiner’s lyric-philosophical poem “Liberated Prometheus” is considered. Scientific novelty is due to the fact that at the moment there are practically no studies about Lipiner in domestic literary criticism. The relevance is seen in the receptive approach to the analysis of Lipiner’s work, as well as in the philosophical perspective of the modern problem of interpreting a literary text. The philosophical views of Goethe, reflected in the poem “Liberated Prometheus”, are considered in detail in connection with the literary motif of dreams in the spirit of the philosophy of solipsism. A review of European literary sources reflecting this motive is carried out. Attention is paid to biographical and critical material about Lipiner’s work, which makes it possible to prove the impact of Goethe’s work on the poem under study. The interpretation of Goethe’s pantheistic ideas in Lipiner’s poem is studied, among other things, within the framework of the Promethean mythology. The correlation and interrelation of the main philosophical components in Lipiner’s text: solipsism and pantheism are investigated. Parallels are drawn between separate textual fragments of the tragedy “Faust” and the poem “Freed Prometheus”, the influence of the named philosophical concepts of Goethe on the work of Lipiner is proved.

The corpus of modern Russian and foreign popular texts is analyzed, in which the simulative space is considered and the question of simulative reality as a manifestation of escapism is raised. The theoretical basis of the work was the works of M. A. Chernyak, M. A. Litovskaya, N. A. Kupina, V. I. Mildon and other researchers devoted to popular literature in the broadest aspect. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that today the corpus of such texts is a promising social project that claims to be one of the dominant positions in the modern cultural context. The experience of many years of work of the authors in the field of modern mass culture is reflected in the article. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time the nature of such a phenomenon as the phenomenon of simulated emigration in modern popular literature is considered. It is shown that works about travels recreate the national picture of the world, broadcast national specifics and acquaint the reader with the peculiarities of human life in a different geographical space. It is noted that the mass text is designed to immerse the recipient in a state of escapism, forcing them to master, among other things, a mentally alien reality. It is argued that popular travel texts tend to create a more eventful reality

The article deals with the reaction of the Russian press to the revolutionary events in Southern Italy in 1820—1821. The main sources were the journals “Vestnik Evropy”, “Nevsky Spectator”, “Son of the Fatherland”, and the official newspaper “St. Petersburg Vedomosti”, and the foreign press was also involved. In the course of the study, the main methods of conveying information to the reading public in Russia on such issues as the development of the revolutionary process in Naples, the reaction of the powers of the Holy Alliance, the role of the Carbonari society and the significance of the separatist movement in Sicily were established. It was possible to correct the conclusions of scientists of the USSR regarding the presentation of the news agenda in journals close to the Decembrist circles. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the prevailing influence of the Austrian press on the Russian press was established; the latter imported views on the constitutional process in Naples as the result of a conspiracy by the “sect” of the Carbonari. Materials were established that stood out from the prevailing agenda and considered the events of the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820 from the point of view of political economy.

The influence of the Great Patriotic War on the restructuring of the industry of Uzbekistan is considered. The materials of the National Archives of Uzbekistan are used, some of which have not been published before. It is reported that in the pre-war years, the economy of Uzbekistan was dominated by agriculture and the war became a new period of industrialization of the republic. It is stated that during the war years, during the mass evacuation, Uzbekistan received about 190 industrial enterprises from the western regions of the USSR. It is stated that such a large-scale evacuation of industry, on the one hand, created difficulties associated with the placement of equipment and people, and on the other hand, formed a disproportionately expanded industrial potential of Uzbekistan. Attention is focused on the fact that the economy withstood the main difficulties of restructuring industry on a war footing. It is proved that the new industrial centers of the country began to be of great importance for the military economy of the USSR. It is emphasized that the people of Uzbekistan heroically worked on the construction of new plants and factories, as well as on the restoration of evacuated enterprises, which, among other things, made it possible to solve the issue of a stable supply of the army with weapons, and the industry with raw materials and minerals.

An analysis of the activities of the Nevsky Plant under the leadership of S. I. Mamontov in the 1890s. The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of family control over an industrial business focused on the production for various transport purposes. For the first time, with the involvement of archival materials, a description of the joint work of S. I. Mamontov, his relatives and business partners on the implementation of an extensive infrastructure project is given. Particular attention is paid to the functioning effectiveness of the Nevsky Plant Partnership in its various organizational forms, production and financial situations. The ability of the key owner to coordinate his interests with the tasks of the development of a large company for any foreseeable future is considered. It is shown that the results of the Nevsky Plant activities in the 1890s were contradictory. It is followed by the ruin of its largest shareholder, on the one hand, the growth of the production potential of the St. Petersburg enterprise on the other hand. It is concluded that the bankruptcy of S. I. Mamontov not so much reflected the lack of a future for the industrial and transport companies he headed, but rather showed the discrepancy between the investment and administrative model of family business used and the scale of the technical, technological and managerial tasks facing the key owner.

The experience of reconstructing the system of settlement and land use of the Tatar and Russian population in one of the regions of the Lower Tobol region is presented on the basis of an analysis of maps and archival sources of the 17th century. As a result of comparing the map of S. U. Remezov with modern cartographic material, the displacement of the channels of the Tobol, Tura and Tapa and a large water supply of the surrounding water bodies compared to the modern one were recorded. At the same time, it is concluded that large-scale landscape changes over the past four centuries have not occurred in the right-bank part of Tobol and the interfluve of Tobol and Tura. For the first time, an extract from the cadastral book of L. M. Poskochin of 1684—1685 is published, recorded as part of the “Documents on land disputes of the yasash Tatars of the Yalutorovsky district of the Tobolsk province”, stored in the archive of the Museum Complex named after. I. Ya. Slovtsov in Tyumen. On the basis of archival data and the map of S. U. Remezov, the number and location of the yurts of the yasash Tatars of the Tarkhansky prison were restored, the number of their population was calculated, in particular, the growth of the male Tatar population was established. In addition, an assessment of the natural potential of the region under consideration, the role of the producing and appropriating industries in the economy of the local and service population is given.

A radical and reformist discourse on the nature and limits of the “folk element” in the British political system in the first third of the 19^th century is considered. The key features of this discourse and the role it played in shaping a broad Tory identity are studied. It is shown that during the period under study, the focus of political controversy shifted from issues of sovereignty and royal prerogative to issues related to fair popular representation and the nature of the necessary political reforms. The novelty of the study lies in the emphasis on the fact that it was the abuse of power by the “popular element” in the British constitutional system that was the main threat to sustainable development. This thesis is supported by documentary evidence, including those first introduced into scientific circulation. It is emphasized that the broad Tory identity that developed during the period under study was based on adherence to the ideals of the constitutional order, established as a result of the Glorious Revolution. The author’s assessment of how the various approaches of the Tory groups to the issue of reform eroded the broad identity of the Tories, creating a basis for the formation of political ideas of conservatism, is presented.

The features and mechanisms of preservation of the traditional culture of the Austrian mountain peasants are considered. The characteristic features of the life support of the Austrian peasants, their production cycle, features of life are singled out and described. It is noted that the core of the region life support system is agriculture, based on distant pasture forms of cattle breeding and deep processing of its products at the level of local farms. The thesis is substantiated that the preservation of traditional objects on the territory of the Austrian Alps is associated with their recontextualization. Based on field research data, the author gives examples of the preservation and presentation of the national culture of the settlements of some places in Austria (the Zell am See region, the federal state of Salzburg). The article shows another aspect of recontextualization — the preservation of rituals, which is determined by the production cycle. Attention is focused on such a factor as the promotion of creative teams. This gives impetus to the development of innovative forms of life support culture. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of borrowing the experience of integrating innovative forms of “rural culture” to preserve life support and un

The relevance of the study is due to the enduring theoretical and practical interest shown by Russian society in the historical period studied in the article. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the materials from the funds of two regional archives are used in the article: the Current Archive of the Territorial Authority of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Sverdlovsk Region and the Center for Documentation of Public Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region, some of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. It is emphasized that the decade under study was the peak of the historical period known as “stagnant”, becoming the last relatively prosperous decade in the history of the USSR. The authors state that the policy of “détente” provided the country with a certain foreign policy stability. Attention is focused on the fact that the development of stagnation phenomena in the country’s economy in the 1970s is clearly visible when analyzing the production of consumer goods on the example of almost any of its regions, including the Middle Urals. It is proved that during the decade under study there was no significant improvement in providing the population of the region with industrial food products. It is concluded that similar stagnation phenomena were observed in most and other areas of consumer goods production.

The process of overcoming crisis phenomena during the recruitment of the Canadian volunteer army at the height of the First World War is analyzed in the context of the activities of the Minister of Militia and Defense Sam Hughes. The chronological framework is due to the beginning of the crisis in the recruitment of the Canadian volunteer army (October 1915) and the completion of S. Hughes’s activities as Minister of Militia and Defense (November 1916) in connection with the forced resignation. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that for the first time in Russian historiography, views are formulated and the mobilization activity of Minister S. Hughes is analyzed during the crisis in the recruitment of the Canadian volunteer army at the height of the First World War. The efforts of S. Hughes to overcome the recruitment crisis and stimulate recruitment into the ranks of the Canadian Volunteer Army are traced. The reaction of the press and the public to the mobilization activity of S. Hughes at the height of the war is studied. The reasons, circumstances and consequences of the resignation of S. Hughes from the post of minister are clarified. It is proved that during the leadership of the War Department, S. Hughes managed to achieve impressive results, however, due to his stormy temperament and personal ambitions, he often went beyond his powers, which ultimately predetermined his resignation.

The activities of the youth movement of young controllers “light cavalry” in the mid-1930s are analyzed. On the basis of archival documents and publications of the 1930s, the features of the solution of new tasks in production by the “light cavalry”, the participation of detachments in the organization of the Stakhanov movement were revealed. The specificity of the work of special youth associations in railway transport, in rural areas is shown. It is revealed that thanks to the efforts of the “light cavalry” to organize the Stakhanov movement, persistent actions aimed at increasing the efficiency of industrial and transport enterprises, protecting collective farm crops and property, its solid creative potential is demonstrated. Particular attention is paid to the attempts of the “light cavalry” since 1934 to restructure the work, strengthening the implementation of educational functions and the exchange of experience. It is noted that by the end of the period under study, the activity of the “light cavalry” was more understood as a school for educating a new person. It is concluded that the widespread opposition to many undertakings of the members of the organization, coupled with a lack of material interest and a workload of other assignments, leveled the decisive attitude not only of many activists, but also of those who were called upon to follow their example.