Historical and Geographical Approach in Study of Place Names in Russian Regions
On the basis of collected and systematized data on the change in the names of cities and large villages of Russia in the course of the twentieth century the author pointed out the main periods of renaming. We considered geographic features in the intensity of renaming in the regions of the country. The concrete data about renaming of towns - major administrative centres and statistical tables characterizing the spatial and temporal regularities of change in place names were presented. The author compiled schematic map of changes of place names in regions of the country.