Abstract
The work deals with determination of the place of urban naming researches in linguistic regional studies. The author substantiates the importance of the linguistic and cultural approach to the description of urbanonyms. The purpose of this description is a formation of urbanonymic mental maps of the city, where there are objects (oikodomonyms, necronyms, etc.), pathways (godonyms and dromonyms), boundaries (often associated with gydronyms), districts (local horonyms, drymonyms, etc.), nodes and landmarks (agoronyms). Important aspects of the description of city urbanonymicon are the etiology, the toponymic history, place in urban naming space, urbanonymic categorization of city toponyms.
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