Sociocultural Standard Interpersonal Relationship
The paper reports outcomes of a theoretical reflection of Russian proverbs and sayings about friendship and friendly relations. The paper alleges that by means of them sociocultural codes and meanings are transmitted. It is shown that proverbs, representing aphoristically short speech, imagery and manifest emotional content, and reflect national-specific context the term «friend», which is determined by cultural and socio-psychological factors, which provide different ways of categorizing. It is substantiated that the sociocultural codes interpersonal relations are available decoding in a particular age at a certain level of personal maturity.