ASTIONIMS OF UKRAINE AS EXPLIATORS OF MEMORIAL CODE OF CULTURE

Abstract

In the article analyzes current Ukrainian asionymes as explicators of the cultural memorial code. It is revealed that after the passage of the Law «On Condemning Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Prohibiting the Propaganda of Their Symbolism», there are few such asionyms left. The purpose of the exploration is to trace the national conditionality of the Astionims, who are the explicators of the memorial code of culture. Formation of a linguocultural portrait of an urban settlement as an explicator of a cultural memorial code was carried out according to the following scheme: nuclear zone (current city name, its location); near periphery (scientifi c genesis of the astionym with the explication of etymon; historical conditions of the name’s name: date of the fi rst known name of the settlement in the sources; name change, etc.) distal periphery (characteristic of etymon); optional interpretive zone (extra-lingual information, descriptors, connotony etc.). There are three groups of memorial astiononyms: names in which memory of famous persons is stored (Alchevsk, Vatutine, Verkhivtseve, Gorlivka, Hrebinka, Dokuchaevsk, Yenakiyeve, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kropyvnytskyi, Lutugine, Sinelnikovo, Khmelnitsky, Shcholkine; Boryspil); settlements named after the biblical Christian events (Blagovishchenske, Voznesenivka, Voznesensk, Pokrovsk, Pokrov); ideologically labeled astionimes, motivated by chrononyms (Pervomaisk, Pershotravensk) and individual memorial names of settlements, the etymons for which became onimes or appellations indicating a memorable event (Artsyz, Beryslav). It is proved that the national spirit of the Ukrainian astionym is often a prerequisite for the national existence of the city itself. However, the memorial titles, in which such conditionality could be used as fully as possible, do not always encode the national-patriotic and spiritual values of Ukrainians.