LINGUISTIC CITY STUDIES
Using the example of the city of Surgut, the report examines the main aspects of one of the important areas of modern urban studies - linguistic. Urban names are analyzed as a mirror of ethnolinguistic processes and it is concluded that the ethnolinguistic description of the city's language allows linguists to identify the key concepts of the linguistic picture of the city's world, describe the functioning of onyms in literary texts, their role in creating the image of the city.