Штрыхi да «ўрбананiмнага партрэта» аднаго беларускага горада

Abstract

The article draws attention to the fact that relatively few summarising comparative studies appear in modern Slavic onomastics. Their absence particularly affects development of those zones of onomastics that became completely formed only in the last decades of the 20th century. One of such zones is urbanonymy and, particularly, the similarities and differences between “urbanonimic portraits” of different cities of Slavia. The article argues that in urbanonymy a portrait is a set of proper names of intracity objects, which has been formed in a certain way, that testifies to the ideological attitude to their nominators, users and visitors of the city. It is emphasized that each of the settlements has its own “portrait” made up of the names of its objects, due to which it differs from others. The article reveals distinctive features of the “urbanonymous portrait” of one of the historical centres of culture, the Belarusian city Slonim, which in 2019 became the venue for the XXVI Days of Belarusian writing.