Onomastic Space Research Articles

РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК В ЗЕРКАЛЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОГО ТЕКСТА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ЯЗЫКОВОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА ХМАО-ЮГРЫ)

В статье на материале Ханты-Мансийского округа — Югры рассматривается функционирование русского языка в региональном пространстве. Анализируются основные направления лингвистического регионоведения: анализ и изучение особенностей местного диалекта, этнолингвистическое изучение языка города, анализ межъязыковых связей, исследование местной ономастики, языка художественных произведений региональных авторов. The functioning of the Russian language in the modern world is a question that currently worries not only the Russian linguistic community, but also philologists from the near and far abroad. It is no less important to describe the functioning of the Russian language not in the global, but in the local dimension, since it is from such “puzzles” that the general picture of the existence of the language is formed. We will try to present in detail the directions of research of one of the regional variants of the language — the language functioning in the space of the regional text of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Ugra. One of the topical areas of regional linguistic research is the analysis and study of the features of the local dialect. The peculiarities of the northern dialects are also inherent in the group of dialects common in the studied territory, which scientists call the dialects of the Ob-Irshysh interfluve. The language and culture of the first settlers were influenced by a foreign language environment. As a result, a peculiar linguistic complex has developed in the dialects of the West Siberian region, in which, firstly, the linguistic features of the “mother base” have been preserved, i.e. features of the North Russian dialect, and, secondly, arising under the influence of the languages of the indigenous inhabitants of the studied regions. Another topical direction is the ethnolinguistic study of the language of the city. The elements of urban vernacular, the system of individual sociolects and professional lectures (for example, oil workers, gas workers), and urban onomasticon are subject to detailed description. Important and interesting aspects Русский язык: национальная норма, диалект, говор 111 of linguistic studies of local linguistics are the analysis of interlingual relations, the description of the local onomastic space. The description of local toponymy and anthroponymy makes it possible to identify the linguistic foundations of local names, to trace the history of settlement and development of the region, to describe the linguistic picture of the world of ethnic groups inhabiting the region. Such a direction of research as the analysis of the language of works of art by local authors fits into the mainstream of modern linguopersonology — a branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the language of individual linguistic personalities. Thus, the Russian language in the mirror of the regional text is the toponyms and ergonyms that function in the given territory, the names of local realities, urban vernacular and professional jargons of Siberian pioneers, the language of texts of the past and contemporary works of art by regional authors. All this constitutes the cultural and linguistic space of the region, which requires careful research and description.

Onomastic Concepts in German Football Fans’ Discourse
 (Based on the Communicative Domain «Fangesäenge»)

The article analyses onomastic potential of lyrics in German football fans’ songs. It gives a brief review of fundamental works on this issue in Russian and foreign (mostly German) linguistics, determines some constituent features of football
 fans’ discourse. It presents the classification of onyms, singles out respective classes of notions (ergonyms, anthroponyms, and toponyms) and their subclasses. The article describes specifics of onomastic space within the studied discourse: on the one hand, the article emphasizes quite a restricted amount of classes
 of proper nouns, on the other hand, it stresses the necessity to renew the contents in virtue of a number of factors – beginning with the change in the name of the home stadium up to new names among the authorities of the club, new transfers and so on.
 The paper applies complex methodologies including discourse, componential, conceptual analysis, classification, observation, description, lexicographical, contextual methods. As a perspective for the research, the author proposes considering this issue in the light of intercultural communication to identify universal and
 specific projections used by the representatives of this social group to construct the onomastic space.

LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE GODONYMIC SYSTEM OF ALMATY

The article reveals the linguistic, historical, cultural, social features of godonyms, their quantitative and qualitative indicators as an important linguistic part of the onomastic space of the city of Almaty. The godonyms of the city of Almaty require special study, since they are the main significant object that forms the linguistic, cultural and socio-ethical consciousness of the population, guests and tourists. Since the city is witnessing numerous reforms and historical processes, the study of linguistic features, streets allow you to identify names of national importance, as well as their development. Onomastic names of the city, including godonyms, freely fit into the world, international information space and are widely reflected. It can be observed on electronic maps google map, Yandex map, mobile applications 2GIS. The city’s godonymic names on these maps are transmitted in international Latin graphics or in Russian. The article carried out a synchronous and diachronic, comparative statistical analysis of the streets of Almaty, determined the proportion of national names and classified by semantic type. Specific recommendations are given on the unification of the city of Almaty’s godonymy (street and metro names).

Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Process of Development of the Onomastic Space of Almaty City in the Conditions of Globalization

The process of globalization affects literally all spheres of public life of society, in which, undoubtedly, the protective mechanisms of the language are included, aimed at strengthening the national immunity of the language, strengthening the national identity of the state. The problem of language, including onomastics, is one of the strategically important areas of state policy. The article reveals semantic and word-forming features, quantitative and qualitative indicators of ergonyms as an important linguistic element that makes up the onomastic space of the Almaty city. These names require a comprehensive study, since they are an important factor that forms the linguistic, cultural and socio-ethical consciousness of the masses, residents and guests of the metropolis, foreign tourists, and also play an important role in the education of the younger generation. The study of the linguistic features of signage on the streets of the city,commercial enterprises, expressed in different languages as a result of the merger of many cultures and languages in the linguistic landscape of the city, will allow us to determine the modern cultural and social appearance of the metropolis, the quantitative and qualitative ratio of national content names, general directions of development. The positive influence of the globalization process can be called the fact that the onomastic names of Kazakhstan, including the onomasticon of the mega polis, are actively involved in the world, international information space. However, on the other hand, excessive Americanization, the tendency of Westernization, and the predominance of the English language weaken the mechanisms of nominating onomastic names in the state language; minimize the ethno-cultural component and the national content of the semantics of ergonyms. As a result of a comparative statistical analysis of the names of commercial enterprises (some shopping and entertainment complexes, business centers, restaurants, cafes), financial, educational institutions (banks, exchange offices, pawnshops and kindergartens), primarily attracting the attention of consumers on the streets of Almaty, the proportion of foreign-language names and ergonyms in the Kazakh language was revealed and comments were made. Recommendations on the ordering and coordination of urban onomastics for a more effective organization of the language space of the metropolis are given.

Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova

This paper researches the role that hodonyms (street names) play in forming cultural and collective identity and awareness. Street names are thereby treated as the elements that get transformed from everyday communication and interaction to symbols constructed by political elites to direct the collective history perception and memory. The paper explores the principles of forming a new onomastic space of the capital city of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau. Current work identifies some peculiarities of street renaming, grouping them into several categories. The main principles of renaming policies are also revealed. The analyses of renaming practices help understand the national identities that Moldovans are going to build, and the ideology that local and national authorities will impose.

Способы номинации персонажей в сказах П.П. Бажова

This article discusses a question of nomination characters in the tales of P.P. Bazhov. Character’s names in tales are studied from the point of view of etymology, symbolism and mythology. The aim of the research is to analyze the semantics of the character’s names in Bazhov’s tales. The hypothesis of the study is the following statement: symbolic and mythological conceptions about the named character, together with the context and meaning of the lexemes that make up the name, form the semantics of the name of one or another character. The analysis was based on the texts of Bazhov’s tales, included in collection works of the writer in 3 books (“The Mistress of the Copper Mountain”, “The Malachite Box”, “The Stone flowe”, “The Mountain master”, “A Fragile twig”, “Zhelezko’s covers”, “Two lizards”, “Sochen’s gems”, “Grass trap”, “Old mountains gift”, "Ivanko Krylatko", "Ognevushka-Poskakushka", "Blue snake", etc.). The article identifies the features of the onomastic space of P.P. Bazhov's tales. This article considers ways to designate characters in tales, which are studied in the framework of onomastics. In this study, it was used a descriptive method (when generalizing theoretical knowledge on the subject under study), a method of component analysis (in interpretation of the semantics of a character’s name), a comparative method (when comparing characters to identify their common characteristics), and a classification method (in the classification of the names of the characters). Character’s names of Bazhov’s tales were divided on two groups and several subgroups depending on the character's belonging to the world of people or to the world of fantastic creatures. The results of the research can be used to further study the specifics of nomination characters in the tales of P.P. Bazhov.

Methods for Classifying Abbreviations Document Names (Based on the Material of the Modern German Language)

The article offers options for the classification of abbreviations-documentary names on the basis of various characteristics. The following can be selected as the classification criteria: the number of components in an abbreviation, which affects its derivational potential; the structure of the abbreviation, i.e. the division of abbreviations into initial, syllabic and combined; the types of documents, for example: laws, regulations, agreements, et.; the classification on a thematic basis, i.e. in relation to the sphere of management and economics. This classification is mainly based on truncated components, which are more informative than initials. Among document names there are abbreviations consisting of purely German components and abbreviations that are borrowings or consisting of a combination of autochthonous and borrowed components. It is possible to classify documentary abbreviations by the presence of borrowings in their composition. The main attention in the article is paid to the classification by their place in the internal onomastic field. The names of documents used in the common European space and the names of documents with a narrower scope of distribution (Germany as a whole or in specific federal lands) are distinguished, which determines their entry into the nuclear or peripheral zone of the onomastic space. The presence of other onyms in the documentary names, among which toponyms, that characterize the effect of specific legal documents in a certain territory, occupy a special place. It is concluded that abbreviated document names represent a certain field of onomastics, the core of which are global document names, and that they represent a certain system, and not a simple set of abbreviated onyms.

Character Taxonomy in Dina Rubina’s Trilogies of the 2000s— 2010s

The article examines the trilogy by Dina Rubina “People of the Air” (2008—2010) and “Russian Canary” (2014). The relevance of the study is due, firstly, to the low degree of study of the trilogy “Russian Canary” (the onomastic space of the work is analyzed and the features of the book are determined in the context of a family novel of the 20th century); secondly, the need to differentiate the author’s artistic methodology, which is different in the studied macro-texts. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the authors, comparing the two trilogies by Dina Rubina, come to the conclusion that the author uses various semiotic strategies for constructing texts, thus revealing the homology of storylines, methods of constructing character series and general principles of world modeling of trilogies. The results of a comparative analysis are presented, which allow us to see the patterns of the artistic search of a modern author and his stylistic innovations. It is proved that with the parallelism of character series of two epic cycles, the author in the first case resorts to the artistic method of magical realism (“People of the Air”), and in the second case uses realistic principles of writing (“Russian Canary”).

Onomasticon of the Story by B. K. Zaitsev ‘Priest Kronid’ in the Context of Constants of Russian Orthodox Christianity

The article examines the problem of studying the semantics of linguistic units in fiction, in particular, the study of how proper names function in a literary text. In this study, proper names are treated as functional and semantic units of language, speech, and culture. The re-search material is the story by B. K. Zaitsev ‘Priest Kronid’ (1905), and its object is onomas-tic vocabulary and specific constants of Russian Orthodox Christianity. The onomasticon of the story consists of anthroponyms (Kronid, etc.), toponyms (Kostenka, Dmitrovo), hagionyms (Christ, God), eortonyms (Easter, Trinity, Egor’s day, etc.), zoonym (Kashtan), etc. The purpose of the article is to examine how proper names function in B. K. Zaitsev’s text. The study makes a new contribution to as of yet insufficient research of the onomastic space of fiction by B. K. Zaitsev, and its relevance is enhanced by the importance of studying proper names as a component of the writer’s linguistic picture of the world and the need for scientific understanding of the functional role of onomastic units in the literary text in terms of national religious ideas about the world. The paper uses a complex method of studying proper names in fiction, combining various methods and techniques, namely: the method of conceptual analysis, the method of component analysis of fictional text, the method of continuous sampling as well as the semantic and stylistic methods. The author investigates the onomastic field of B. K. Zaitsev’s text and determines the functional role of proper names of different categories. The story reveals associative and semantic connections of individual onyms with certain constants of Russian Orthodox Christianity. The author also makes a number of specific conclusions about the features of B. K. Zaitsev’s poetics, including those about conceptualizing meanings of individual linguistic units and strengthening of the value component in their meaning in the literary text. The linguistic material can be used in special courses on the onomastics of a literary text or issues related to the writer’s linguistic picture of the world, or in courses that include philological analysis of texts.

Objective and Subjective Evidence for Political Reality
 in Autobiographical Discourse

The article surveys peculiarities of a political language personality’s autobiographical discourse. Through the analysis of the autobiographical discourse, the specific features of the genre are revealed; its peculiarities in objectifying
 political reality are detected. The study material is a book of memoirs «Decision Points» by the 43d President of the USA George W. Bush, in which he describes landmark events in his personal and professional life and tries to explain what or who moved him forward in choosing complicated and provocative
 routes.
 In the analyses the author identifies genre-forming features of works, as well as the features in the objectification of political reality. The politician’s memoirs are distinguished not through accurate narration of factual evidence as much as through the aim to develop a certain view of the historical period in the
 reader and through the desire to cultivate a certain opinion in them. For this
 reason the reminiscent must strike an ideal balance in supplying objective and
 subjective evidence. A combination of unprejudiced narration and personal considerations,
 the author’s reflections on his reasons for decision-making, admission
 of guilt and not being right in some crucial moments add to the emotional
 disposition of the text and make it more convincing. Pragmatic actuality is
 achieved through rendering historical and famous facts, dates, and contemporary
 records.
 Within this article the onomastic space of G.W. Bush’s memoirs has ben
 analysed, which helps to reveal that most of the onyms (anthroponyms, zoonyms,
 chrematonyms, ethnonyms, socionyms, ergonyms, toponyms) and to testify to
 their credibility. The conclusion is made that the objective evidence is exposed
 to careful selection and is to accord with the pragmatic intention of the subject
 of reminiscence; the subjective evidence allows to fill the text with emotional
 substance and to plunge the reader in the thick of things.

ONOMASTIC SPACE OF TRANSLATION DISCOURSE: HARMONY vs. DISHARMONY

The authors of the article have studied the onomastic translation discourse considering, on the one hand, the common methodological concept - translation space, and, on the other hand, traditions of analysis existing in the Russian and Bulgarian schools of thought. Such approach creates new scientific view on the problem and leads to the new results. The work of modern French writer O. Bourdeaut “En attendant Bojangles” and its translation to the Russian and Bulgarian languages and entitled as “В ожидании Божанглза” and “В очакване на Боджангълс” correspondingly became the basic concept of the empirical analysis. The novel of O. Bourdeaut is distinguished by the richness of onomastic material which finds its reflection in translation discourse and is traced in the article by the material of three languages: French, Bulgarian and Russian. Taking into consideration the basic provisions of the theory of nomination by A.V. Superanskaya, V.V. Katermina, the theory of text/discourse by V.E. Chernyavskaya, the synergetic concepts of the language by N.L. Myshkina, G.G. Moskalchuk, N.V. Drozhaschikh and others, the interpretative theory of translation by D. Seleskovich and M. Lederer, the authors develop the ideas of the synergy of translation with reference to onomastic space of translation discourse which defines the aim of the present research. Versatile linguistic-and-translation analysis of French-Russian and French-Bulgarian anthroponyms has been carried out and harmonic/disharmonic conformity between them has been revealed. This conformity is opening the translation discourse possibility to become the inherent part of receiving culture. Obtaining harmonicity in the process of translating components of text/discourse onomastic space from one linguistic culture to another is conditioned by the augment of culturally meaningful senses in translation space, i.e. by their synergy. As appears from the research hypothesis which has found its confirmation in the process of analysis, harmonic translation, i.e. translation where senses are adequate to the senses of the original text, in different languages have different personification: the augment of culturally meaningful senses is varied depending on the abstract or routine national-cultural values of ethnos. The authors of this work have made a conclusion that every harmonic translation is as unique as the original text. In those cases when the components of onomastic space of translation discourse have translation mistakes and discrepancies the fragments including them are recognized to be disharmonic and unacceptable for receiving linguistic culture.

LANGUAGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING: ONOMASTICS DIMENSION

The article is dedicated to the study of proper names in pharmaceutical advertising texts. The objective of the study is to analyze the proper names in pharmaceutical advertising texts in English, French and German. Attention is paid to the description of the features of the functioning of proper names, namely, the nominative, informational-advertising, and appellative-communicative functions are highlighted. The object of the research is the names in pharmaceuticals advertising texts. The subject of the research is the functional features of onyms. The objective determines the choice of methods in our research: general scientific methods of systematization, analysis and synthesis, quantitative analysis were used. Among the special linguistic methods, the structural, functional methods are involved, which contributed to the determination of the features of advertising structure and onyms functions. The article provides a brief description of pharmaceuticals advertising texts structure. Also, certain structural features of proper names in advertising texts are highlighted. The study revealed similarities in advertising texts in English, French and German. Summarizing the above-mentioned, we can emphasize that for the first time the analysis of onyms in pharmaceuticals advertising texts in English, French and German was carried out. After analyzing the onomastic space of pharmaceuticals advertising texts, it was concluded that the onomastics space in the studied material is formed mainly with the help of toponyms, anthroponyms, ergonyms and pragmatonyms. As a result of the study, the functional features of the onyms were established. It has been proven that proper names are an additional source of expressiveness, they contribute to the impact of advertising on the addressee. The practical value of the work lies in the fact that the analysis of onyms in pharmaceuticals advertising texts opens up the prospects for further research, which may be associated with the identification of differential features of onyms in advertising texts with various advertising objects.

Onomastic Space of Animated Films about Russian Heroes by the Studio of Animation Cinema “Mill”

The article is devoted to the study of the system of proper names in the texts of animated films with a folklore precedent basis. The relevance of the research is due to the need to study media texts that translate folklore imagery in linguocognitive and linguostylistic aspects. The material for the research is character and voice-over texts of animated films about Russian heroes: “Alyosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey” (2004), “Dobrynya Nikitich i The Zmey Gorynych” (2006), “Ilya Muromets I Solovey Razboynik” (2007). The complex of names of geographical objects, the naming system of anthropo- and zoomorphic characters is considered, the precedent base for the formation of the onomastic space of animated films is determined, and the ways of introducing new components to the proper names system of this content are characterized. Special attention is paid to the description of intertextual links of the polycode content under study with works of epic genres of Russian folklore and with other sources. The scientific novelty of the work is seen in the fact that the verbal component of the studied animated films is currently insufficiently studied, and their proper names system becomes the subject of linguistic analysis for the first time.

ВЛАСНІ НАЗВИ БУДИНКІВ У СФЕРІ МІСЬКОЇ ТОПОНІМІКИ: ПРАГМАТИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ

The article discusses the ongoing linguistic problem — the phenomenon of modern houses nomination, which is directly related to the phenomenon of naming, as one of the components of an advertising strategy. Modern advertising is a part of popular culture; it gives information about the individual needs of people, based not only on the information about the product, but also on the demonstration of the benefits that the buyer will receive by purchasing a particular product. The relevance of the problem is tied to the active use of modern language, advertising, marketing technologies in almost all spheres of human activity. The aim of the article is the implementation of a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative study of the Odessa’s oikodomonyms, taking into account their structural and semantic features; the selection of criteria, principles and motives for modern houses nomination. The linguistic status of oikodomonyms in the onomastic space has been determined, the use of appropriate terminology has been justified, and the basic structural and semantic models of oikodomonyms have been identified. The oikodomonyms are mainly formed by onymization, transonymization, which is structurally represented by one-component, two-component and multicomponent (descriptive) constructions, among which the first two types are productive. The substantive model of the oikodomonyms’ nomination is more productive (approximately 57.4 %) than the adjective (approximately 31.48 %). The proper names, which are the names of the houses, have been classified by the author of the article into neutral and connotative. The oikodomonyms as the connotative markers of the onomastic system are based on the associative connections with architectural features, exterior, size of houses, location etc.

Синхронно-диахронный «портрет» личного имени в жизни региона (имя Тимофей в ономастиконе Кубани)

Within the framework of the synchronic-diachronic approach to studying personal names in the regional onomasticon, the author identifies relevance of “Тимофей” name for the Kuban Russian-Ukrainian onomastic space. Originality of the study is conditioned by integrative use of linguo-culturological, psycho-linguistic, linguo-geographical, structural-cluster approaches. For the first time, the author develops a word-formative cluster of the Kuban names derived from “Тимофей”. The conclusions are justified by linguo-geographical data for the period from the middle of the XVIII century till nowadays. The psycho-linguistic experiment allows revealing dynamics of the anthroponym perception in the region.

THE ONOMASTIC SPACE OF IRKUTSK

In the post-Soviet era, the onomastic space of Irkutsk noticeably changed. First, changes are found in ergonymy. The transition of the Russian economy to market relations caused the emergence of many new commercial enterprises, which receive their own names. The process of ergonymy development is seriously affected by international population migration. Most migrants work in the service sector and often give their enterprises names associated with their homeland or reflecting national peculiarities. In the linguistic and cultural space of the city, more and more ethnic names appear. These names are included in the system of urban spatial coordinates, significantly changing the composition of ergonyms. ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ:

СОХРАНЕНИЕ ПАМЯТИ О ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЕ В ОНОМАСТИЧЕСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ РОССИИ

The subject of analysis in this article is the ranks of proper names that have entered the onomastic space of Russia over the past 75 years, in which the memory of the heroes and events of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 has been preserved. The purpose of the work is to identify the specificity of onomastic units associated with the specified period in the history of our country. The authors of the article suggest calling them heroic toponyms, ergonyms, carabonyms, etc. According to the authors, the onomastic space of the Russian Federation is currently one of the most reliable types of historical memory of the people, since the names, surnames, and occupations of people who have made a significant contribution to the history of a particular settlement, region or country in overall, as well as the names of historical events. The process of this onomastic nomination is presented as part of the state policy of memory. The article examines in the aspect of commemoration toponyms, microtoponyms, oikonyms, urbanonyms, oronyms, carabonyms, astronyms, cosmonyms, ergonyms, as well as modern memorial sports events dedicated to the events and heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The main attention is paid to heroic toponymy, in particular, the specificity of the commemorative nomination in the settlements on the territory of which during the war years hostilities took place (hero cities, cities of military glory, settlements of military valor) are highlighted. The authors come to the conclusion that reliable information about one of the most difficult periods of Russian history will be reliably transmitted from generation to generation through the onomastic space of Russia.

Антропоніми як маркер ідіостилю письменника в публіцистичних текстах

The study is performed in the aspect of literary onomastics and deals with the analysis of anthroponyms as components of onomastic space in the journalism of Ulas Samchuk (book of memoirs "On a White Horse"). The topicality of the proposed research, on the one hand, is determined by scientific interest in anthroponyms, which, due to their expressive capabilities, richness of functions, unexpected authorial experiments, are an important representative of the writer’s creative idea, and on the other - interest in the heritage of those artists who has not been properly evaluated in Ukraine.

Key Meanings Transmitted by the Names of Russian Newspapers and Magazines of the Soviet Era (1917 - 1991)

The article analyzes the names of newspapers and magazines published in the Republic of Tatarstan (a constituent entity of the Russian Federation) from 1917 to 1991. The research object (hemeronyms) is considered by the authors as an artifact of culture; the authors prove that among all the onyms, hemeronyms seem to be the most dependent on cultural, historical, and ideological factors. Based on the application of the methods of keywords and key meanings, the semantic field of the media onomastic regional space of the studied period is reconstructed. It is shown that the nuclear idea of a semantic field constructed as a result of systematization of empirical material is an idea that can be designated as “building a society of a new formation”. The nuclear idea is revealed in specific key meanings: “struggle” (namely ‘active actions to overcome or achieve something’ and ‘active actions aimed at achieving labor success’), “renewal”, i.e. ‘aimed at building a new socio-economic formation - the communist’, “path”, “collectivization”, “labor as the supreme value”, “guiding the role of the communist party (communists)”. The research results obtained by the authors reflect the specifics of not only the regional (Tatarstan) media onomastic space, but also the whole of Soviet Russia. The algorithm of the study of Russian hemonyms of the Soviet era presented in the work can be extrapolated to the similar material of other national-cultural formations or of the Russian one, but covering other time periods with its own specific worldview dominant.

STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ODESSA MURALS

The article is devoted to the establishment of structural and semantic peculiarities of the imageonyms that nominate Odessa’s murals. The object of our study were the proper names of the murals. The subject of research are the semantic and structural features of the names of Odessa’s murals as a unique subsystem of the Ukrainian language onomastics. The purpose of the work is to determine the place of the names of murals in the onomastic space of the Ukrainian language. As the material of the research, 100 Odessa’s proper names for the designation of murals were picked from printed and electronic Ukrainian mass media. Among the imageonyms are pictonyms – the proper names of paintings, graphiconyms – the names of graphic works, engraving names – the names of engravings, and sculpturonyms – the names of sculptures. Imageonyms are a large group of onomastic vocabulary, the riches and diversity of which to this day remain researched incompletely. We associate the proper names of murals with the category of pictonyms and suggest the introduction of the muralonym term. The need for a special study of this category of onomastic vocabulary is called the emergence of a new kind of art - mural-art. It is noted that among the analyzed muralonyms, the one-component structures representing the names of animals occupy the largest number. The most widespread genres of mural art are animalistic, social, historical, portrait, landscape and religious. In addition to aesthetizing the habitat of people, murals perform a number of social and cultural functions: aesthetic, social, educational, cognitive-heuristic, memorial, suggestive, communicative. The muralists cover social and political problems of our time, tell about prominent figures of history, science, culture of Ukraine, synthesizing contemporary and traditional art. The mural plays an important role in the contemporary socio-cultural space of Ukraine, artistically enriching it, raising topical social problems and celebrating outstanding figures in the history of our nation.