TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS OF LINGUISTIC MAPPING AS A MEANS OF INVESTIGATION AND PRESERVATION OF DIALECT FACTS (regarding publication of the <i>Russian Dialects Lexical Atlas</i>. Vol. I, <i>Plant Kingdom</i>. Editor-in-Chief: Tatyana I. Vendina, Institute of Linguistic Studies within the Russian Academy of Sciences. Nestor-Istoriya, St Petersburg, 2017)
The article is aimed to present a unique collective academic work to which scholars from Pskov contributed a lot. Revision of the published volume Plant Kingdom demonstrates the multi-faceted innovation of the concept and its implementation while mapping dialect folk names pertinent to this topic in the European area of Russia (1064 assessed settlements). Academic and practical signifcance of the project implementation is also demonstrated 130 Серия « Социально-гуманитарные науки » . 9/2019 against the background of the development of the linguistic-geographical mapping method as a school of the language studies which is ongoing from the late 19th century. Factual evidence, theoretical and practical documents accompanying each map (index of the material, commentary, legends, alphabetical list of the mapped units, illustrations) improve and enlarge knowledge of synchronic-diachronic peculiarities of realia names at other levels as well.