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Vol 15, No 1 (2026)
p-ISSN 2304-0785
e-ISSN 2305-6754
DOI 10.31168/2305-6754
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Academic Editors
F. B. Uspenskij (Editor-in-Chief), Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the RAS, Moscow; T. I. Afanasyeva, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the RAS, Moscow; E. I. Kislova, HSE University; A. O. Burtseva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow; R. Marti, Saarland University, Saarbrücken; D. G. Polonski, Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, Moscow; M. N. Saenko, Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, Moscow
Managing Editors
T. I. Afanasyeva, А. О. Burtseva, E. I. Kislova, L. M. Orlova-Gimon, M. N. Saenko
Technical Copy Editors
A. O. Burtseva, A. A. Troitskaya, M. S. Yakovleva
Russian Language Copy Editors, Proofreaders
T. I. Afanasyeva, A. O. Burtseva, E. I. Kislova
English Language Copy Editor, Proofreader
A. A. Andreev
Layout Editor M. N. Tolstaya
Design (2012) I. N. Ermolaev
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FULL ISSUE
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
| Revisiting the Etymology of the Quasi-Ethnonym Hinova | PDF (Русский) |
| Vladimir V. Napolskikh, Olesya D. Surikova | 7-30 |
| Hypocoristic Names Ending with -ec- in Old Russian | PDF (Русский) |
| Evgeniya V. Budennaya | 31-67 |
| The Litany of the Saints and Its Usage among Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages | PDF (Русский) |
| Tatiana I. Afanasyeva | 68-93 |
| Observations on Family Commemorations in the Donation and kormovye Books of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery: Collective Contribution and Name Giving | PDF (Русский) |
| Ekaterina S. Evdokimova | 94-116 |
| From the Iconoclast Dionysius to the Kutuzovs: The Synodic of the Ferapontov Monastery from the Beginning of the 16th Century | PDF (Русский) |
| Anatolii L. Gryaznov, Nikita V. Bashnin | 117-149 |
| Hetman Ivan Samoylovich’s Order of a Set of Liturgical Vessels and a Treasure Binding of a Gospel in the Workshop of the Moscow Kremlin. 1685–1686 | PDF (Русский) |
| Kirill A. Kochegarov | 150-173 |
| Crocodiles in St. Petersburg’s Passage Department Store in 1864: Towards the history of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Crocodile and Something Personal | PDF (Русский) |
| Anastasia N. Pershkina | 174-192 |
| The Verb brosat’ ‘throw’: Lexical Semantics and Aspectual Properties | PDF (Русский) |
| Vladimir A. Plungian, Anastasia D. Podgornaia | 227-252 |
NOTES
| Re-reading the Birchbark Letter 141 from Novgorod: Where Did Griška and Kosta Go? | PDF (Русский) |
| Dmitry S. Krylov, Mikhail A. Sokolov | 253-265 |
| ‘Reverend Father Archimandrite Feofan, I, Your Humble Servant, Humbly Ask for Your Holy Blessing...’: A Private Letter from the First Third of the 18th Century Discovered during Archaeological Excavations of the Yakutsk Fortress | PDF (Русский) |
| Ivan V. Frolov, Il′ya D. Gorshkov, Olga E. Kuz′kokova | 266-289 |
REVIEWS
| The Return of Sumarokov | PDF (Русский) |
| Ekaterina I. Kislova | 290-298 |
| Traditions of the Russian-Belarusian-Polish Borderland: New Data | PDF (Русский) |
| Daria Yu. Vashchenko | 299-304 |





