NATURAL HODONYMS OF KAZAN

Abstract

The article deals with the system of historically established natural hodonyms of the city of Kazan and the featuresof their localization. The dynamics of hodonyms transformation in Kazan in the period 1917 – 2023 shows relatively stable proportionsof the main types of hodonyms, including a stable share of natural ones, which make up about a quarter of the total number of the city’shodonyms. This necessitates their study by geographers, including research on the influence of natural factors on the cultural andhistorical image of the city.The paper solves the problems of the hodonyms typology, the grouping of naming units, and analysis of the structure of Kazan’smodern hodonyms. Some of the natural hodonyms are based on the lexicon of Russian and the others – on the lexicon of the Tatarlanguage.The study distinguished five groups of natural hodonyms and identified the main features of their localization. Kazan hodonymsbelonging to the natural type are localized mainly in residential areas on the periphery of districts and on the outskirts of the city.The results of the study of natural hodonyms of Kazan, their structure and localization are of interest to specialists in the fieldof geography, local studies, and departments of state and municipal administration bodies.