Russian urbanonyms in reflection of regional identity
Journal: InterCarto InterGIS
Year: 2024

The aim of the work is to study city toponyms, or urbanonyms, from the point of view of educational value and creation of an idea of the Russian world. The frequency of repeating urbanonyms (city toponyms) exceeding 200 repetitions was tracked using the electronic database “Streets of the same name in Russian cities”. There were 76 of them, and their total number exceeded 26 thousand. They were divided into six clusters with the names of: 1) revolutionary figures; 2) Soviet symbols; 3) festive a