The paper poses the problem of equipping young researchers with the necessary skill of formatting a reference list in accordance with the stated requirements for its design. The process of developing a skill entails principles of consistency and coherence, natural conformity, feasibility, involvement, as well as the so-called activity approach. The described methodology involves: analysis of scientific, academic and official sources; random sampling in order to obtain material through open network resources; analysis and synthesis of the obtained empirical data. It is concluded that there is a need for students to be gradually and systemically familiarised with this activity from early adolescence.

The article deals with methodological issues of students’ project activities based on the material of nicknames, in connection with the central issue of introducing students to the basics of academic culture. The main points of specification of projects based on the material of nicknames are presented: relevant project types, types of projects by the number of participants, recommendations for limiting the age of participants, types of projects by time of completion, recommended Internet resources, links to the educational subject «Russian language» and its themes, stages of work on projects, general characteristics of the results of project activities. Typical errors were identified by the author in training projects based on this material and correspond to the following aspects, are considered: 1) features of the project design (as a key aspect for all research-type tasks); 2) specifics of thematics; 3) methodological base; 4) features of collecting nicknames; 5) specifics of the style of study texts; 6) specifics of the products of training projects. Typical mistakes made by schoolchildren in projects based on nicknames are stipulated, including: deviations from the norms (including ethical ones – plagiarism) in the text; unjustified narrowness of the subject of projects; untrue use of onomastic terminology; incorrect wordings; incorrect proposed classifications; other errors. Recommendations are given for the implementation of specific projects: in particular, a number of topics, expand the circle of traditional formulations; data collection techniques are described; options for presenting the results (products) of project activities are specified. Conclusions are made that educational projects based on the material of nicknames can be used in the educational, educational and educational process during the formation and development of schoolchildren competencies, that is, in the process of forming a full-fledged language, social, and socio-cultural personality.

The aim of the study was to investigate approaches to the formation of general educational skills. A survey examining the design and research process was carried out by 6th-grade Russian students over the course of an extracurricular project entitled «Names of Modern Professions». In the paper, the selection of the «Lexicology» section for such activities carried out by school pupils is substantiated and stages of work on the project are described. The applied methodology involves theoretical analysis of scientific literature, formative experimentation, analysis of products of educational activities, observation and description. It is concluded that the design of extracurricular research activities in the Russian language contributes to the formation of general educational competencies in conducting surveys and searching for information on the basis of subject skills.

The study is aimed at assessing communicative, semantic and structural aspects of schoolchildren’s text-based activity; determining the actual semantic structure of the conceptual area connected with an old age, as well as the types of vocal acts applied to verbalisation of senses in the process of extemporaneous written speech production. Resources: texts of the compositions «An old man, what is he?»; «Old age, what is it?», «In old age I will be...», written by seventh- grade Russian students in Omsk in 2020. The applied methodology involves complex analysis for identifying communicative (speech strategies and tactics, type of communication), cognitive (actualisation of meaning and cognitive structures), semantic (selection of words, distribution of subjective features, selection of predicates, etc.) parameters. Results of the research: the author reveals certain dominance of variably developing typical scenarios associated with specific cognitive fragments in the linguistic consciousness as well as particular impact of social stereotypes associated with age, old age, old person. The author comes to the following conclusions: competence in communicative norms and structure of reasoning, predominance of self-communication, lack of dependence between the choice of the communication model and stating of the topic; actual semantic spaces and cognitive structures in the old age conceptual area: family – «love for children and grandchildren, care, help» / «abandonment»; lifestyle – «physical and intellectual activity », «health» / «lack of interest», «illness»; life as past – present – future – «work, money, business», «joy, fun, pleasure », «sadness, weakness»; a person – «different types of elderly people», «optimism» / «grumpiness», «experience», «wisdom»; the nature of the written speech actions consists in endowing with quality, transferring the activity of the subject – a person and his age state with the help of a restricted vocabulary basic for the semantic field of age (elderly, old, an old man, grandmother, grandfather, getting old); presentation of stereotypes of a multi-generational family and mutual care traditional for Russian culture, as well as formation of new stereotypes of active, joyful and happy old age.

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Grigory Naumovich Pristupa, Dr. Sci. (Education), Professor. The significance of Pristupa’s contribution to the methodology of the Russian language teaching is recognized, in particular the typology and effectiveness of Russian language lessons, the importance of exercise systematization, the necessity of a ‘common speech mode’ in school and the teacher’s speech culture. The scholar’s fundamental contribution to the methodology of teaching spelling is analysed in greater detail. The principles of teaching spelling formulated by Pristupa are examined and the ways of their implementation in new educational conditions are described. The theoretical points developed by Pristupa are illustrated by examples from school practice. The lasting value of the scientific and methodological experience of G. N. Pristupa, which has particular significance for modern education, is shown.

The study was set out to analyse the poem «Rainy Summer» by Afanasy Fet. The applied methodology involves poetry and linguistic aesthetic analyses of the text, linguistic commenting, line-by-line analysis and slow reading. The peculiarities of the text size, rhyme and rhythm are considered in the background of the traditions of Russian poetry. The study reveals certain principles of the figurative-thematic structure of the poem, defines its phonics, stylistics and, in part, syntax. In the paper special attention is paid to the aesthetic function of Fet’s grammatical anomalies. The symbolic meaning of verbal-figurative details and the entire poem is clarified. It is indicated that harmony in the rhythm, style, and music of the Fet’s poem plays the role of an iconic sign of the Creator.

The author introduces the expressive potential of derivational means in Ivan Bunin’s prose. It is noted that the writer consistently avoided occasional word formation. Innovations in his works are potential in nature and few in number. The study is aimed at identifying expressive derivational means and determining their functions in the prose of Bunin. The resources were analysed with descriptive and structural-semantic methods. The author distinguishes the groups of derivational means significant for Bunin’s idiostyle: complex adjectives and adverbs with a trope component in their composition, folk etymological formations and expressive derivational dialectisms. Morphemic repetition is considered as essential for Bunin’s prose. It performs the intensifying-distinguishing and text-forming functions and serves to deploy a certain motif and theme as well as to create a word picture. Actualisation of derivational relations in Bunin’s prose reveals the implied sense of the text.

The study involves a philological analysis of Ivan Bunin’s story and reveals its multilevel structure. The relevance of the study stems from a growing popularity of Bunin’s works among readers and investigators. Moreover, some of his texts are included in a set of testing and assessment materials for the Unified State Exam in the Russian language as source texts for writing composition. The study is aimed at clarifying and specifying the interpretation of the story based on linguistic analysis in terms of the writer’s biography and legacy. The author identifies the patterns of the lexical structure and composition of Bunin’s story, unfolding the text at the common level as well as at the symbolic one. The author focuses on the title character of the work, which is a counterpoint to psychological and moral-philosophical issues, as well as to other means of revealing subtext semantics. The research methodology involves lexical, intertextual and motif analysis; the research results are presented mainly using the method of linguistic commenting. The research outcomes embrace the philological results (interpretation of the story The Snow Bull, identification of the universal patterns of Bunin’s artistic style and dominants of his vision) and didactic findings (validation of such works as The Snow Bull as the examination material for the USE in the Russian language).

The study is set out to prove the expediency of incorporation of the notion concept-symbol into the linguopoetics terminology. The analysis of Blok’s poem «Comet» confirms a substantial heuristic potential of the concept-symbol. The applied etymological, lexical, field, contextual and conceptual analyses proved the ability of the concept-symbol to form a conceptual domain obtaining text-forming potential and correlating with the idea of a work of art. The concept-symbol is deeply incorporated in the author’s individual vision, bringing certain features of a neo-myth. The above features distinguish a concept-symbol from a figure-symbol used to provide logical emphases and cohesion among the elements of conceptual framework, as well as from the concept-frame which forms the plot component of the poem.

The study is aimed at analysing of the constants of advertising texts – advertising onyms – in terms of derivation processes and identifying the most productive methods of derivation in advertising naming. The paper provides a brief description of the advertising language and, in particular, of the advertising onym, introduces examples of modern advertising names created by derivational means of the Russian language. The author differentiates and systematises various functions of affixes in advertising names. The described methodology involves theoretical analysis and generalisation, derivational analysis of advertising onyms, classification and forecasting methods. The author considers pure affixal and combined methods as the most productive methods of derivation of advertising onyms. Onym-acronyms go beyond an informational content. Contaminated structures often include elements of graphoderivation and are considered to be the most multifunctional in terms of pragmatic goals of the advertisement. The advertising language is developing towards creativity, ingenuity and utilitarity, thus, mixing formants, contaminated structures and elements of various code systems within one onym appear to be the most relevant and competitive means of creating constants of advertising texts.

The study investigates the rule of spelling the root -ravn-/-rovn- and is considered to be a fragment of the academic description of Russian spelling, which is currently being under investigation at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors clarify the meanings that determine the spelling of the unstressed root, supplement the lists of exceptions, denote words with meanings not corresponding to the given values-criteria, and, for the first time in linguistics, investigate the words that can be correlated with different values-criteria, that is, they have double motivation. The rule codifies the spelling of words that have double motivation and fluctuate in usus, dictionaries, study guides and reference books. Spelling recommendations for these words correspond to the current linguistic norm and were approved by the Spelling Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019. The linguistic commentary to the rule contains the most significant etymological facts concerning the root -ravn-/-rovn- and summarises the scientific and methodological attempts to figure out the distribution of vocabulary with root -ravn-/-rovn- based on the meanings selected in the spelling rules. In the paper it is shown that the instability in spelling of various verbs with the root -ravn-/-rovn- in modern writing and dictionaries is determined by the double motivation of words, as well as contradictory recommendations and gaps in the rules.

This article reviews the new lexical material related to the coronavirus pandemic. The empirical material was collected in the electronic database Integrum. The subject of the collected material are names of persons which were used in electronic mass media (newspapers, magazines, blogs, social networks). The volume of the lexical corpus counts about 90 neolexemes, which makes up a significant part of the collected corpus of lexical, word-formation, semantic innovations in the Russian language. Presumably, their number may be more than 600. The following thematic groups are revealed: 1) coronavirus patients; 2) law-abiding citizens complied with quarantine requirements; 3) quarantine violators; 4) alarmists; 5) victims of the pandemic; 6) volunteers; 7) medical personnel; 8) legal Offenders; 9) children born between December 2020 and March 2021. In the analyzed material, there is graphical and orthographic variability, reflecting the spoken language in written texts; the grade of unification is rather low. The Innovations are: 1) direct borrowings (their number is not too big); 2) calques; 3) actualized lexemes (under the influence of Anglo-American words); 4) words appeared in the Russian language but inspired by the pandemic theme and the extraordinary situation of severe quarantine. Most of the lexical innovations are author’s individual words; the share of words belonging to conventional lexemes is about 20–30 ones. The research methods are derived from the research questions, i.e. systemic, classification, deductive, inductive ones.