2026. Volume 19. Issue 1

Russian Literature

Thanatological concepts in the prose of A. P. Chekhov and I. A. Bunin

• N. Y. Zheltova
• O. G. Talalaeva

The archetype of a woman in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novels: semantics, functions, transformation

• V. A. Kokhanova

The evolving myth of the Zone across late 20th- and early 21st-century cultural landscapes (“Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatsky brothers, Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”, and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game universe)

• O. Y. Osmukhina
• A. N. Kharitonov

Multi-layered character structure in A. Salnikov’s novel “The Petrovs in and Around the Flu”

• Chen Lu

Reception of A. N. Ostrovsky’s play “Guilty Without Guilt” (1883) in Chen Jiaping’s adaptation “The Innocent” (1952)

• Xueer Yang

The embodiment of the socio-historical panorama in P. D. Boborykin’s novel “Kitay-gorod”: a synthesis of the artistic and the publicistic

• A. S. Yusyaev

National Literatures of Russia

The genre of documentary fiction novella in Adyghe literature: evolution and contemporary state

• N. B. Bozieva

Folklorism in the poetics of the Chuvash novel

• V. V. Nikiforova
• A. F. Myshkina

A combination of folk and written traditions in the works of Magomed Atabiev: poetics and problematics

• T. S. Bittirova

Foreign Literature

The theme of solitude in Louise Colet’s poetry

• V. I. Pinkovskiy

“Shaded memories”: visual-verbal language as a way of functioning polyphony (based on A. Kühn’s graphic novel “Lichtung”)

• I. G. Prudius
• A. V. Grachev

A reproach of “one Russian” to the Marquis de Custine

• V. P. Trykov
• S. M. Dounine

Plot and poetics of Zülfü Livaneli’s political novel “Wait for Me” (2025)

• M. M. Repenkova

The motif of mountain struggle and rivalry in Japanese folk prose

• A. R. Sadokova

The motif of love in the third triptych of the Brontë sisters’ collection “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell” (1846)

• G. I. Modina
• A. A. Tolmacheva

The poetics of Emil Cioran: from scream to silence

• R. S. Granin

“A man obsessed”: the nature of evil and alienation in Hubert Selby Jr.’s “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho”

• K. A. Vikhrova

Reimagining the Chinese historical canon in the prose of Anchee Min

• K. V. Korobko
• O. O. Nesmelova

Aesthetic transformations in the era of Romanticism – the book-within-a-book phenomenon: selected observations

• N. A. Litvinenko

Dysfunctional fatherhood in cultural liminality narratives: a study of contemporary Swedish literature

• M. A. Morkina

Detective escapism in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel “The Final Problem”

• N. V. Varyoshin

Junji Ito as a Neo-Gothic writer

• A. V. Kamaldinov
• A. K. Kamaldinova

Theory of Literature

The narrative presence effect in contemporary Russian prose: the novel “Children of the Volga” by G. Yakhina in relation to certain post-postmodernist concepts

• A. V. Maslennikova

Russian Language

Cognitive mechanisms of prefixal paronymy in Russian verbs

• D. V. Yakunina

The anthroponymic landscape of modern Astrakhan

• M. L. Lapteva
• T. V. Grebelnik

Тузы (aces) in linguistic consciousness of 19th-century Russians (within the conceptual metaphor LIFE IS A CARD GAME)

• E. V. Ganapolskaya

The motivational-figurative paradigm of advertising nominations in the Sino-Russian borderland: a linguacultural aspect

• T. V. Vasilyeva

Languages of Russia

The origin of masculine naming units in the Karelian language

• Y. V. Karakin

Auxiliary verbal elements of analytic verb forms in the Ingush language

• M. M. Khadzieva
• L. M. Khadzieva

Germanic Languages

Definitional pronominal components of German substantive compounds “Ich-” and “Selbst-” in the aspect of contextual connections

• A. V. Melgunova

Semantics of lexemes representing combat sports in the structure of the German concept KAMPF (based on the Duden, DWDS, and PONS explanatory dictionaries)

• V. S. Tabakova

Linguistic representation of the conceptual components of the linguocultural constant NACHHALTIGKEIT in German podcasting

• O. E. Teselkina

Theory of Language

Actualization of the olfactory modality in K. G. Paustovsky’s landscape discourse: functional and semantic aspects

• E. M. Martynova

Gender specificities of the linguo-axiosphere in feminine sports chess discourse (based on direct internet broadcasts)

• L. E. Pak

Discourse phrasing of emphatic utterances: the French language

• A. P. Sedykh
• E. N. Akimova
• L. A. Mashkova

Metaphorical nominations of tea varieties in Chinese

• Yihan Sun
• Y. A. Volkova

Linguistic mechanisms of constructing social reality in the folk song tradition: linguistic and cultural aspect (based on the songs of the village of Krasny Yar, Ufa District)

• A. S. Kobyskan
• L. K. Samsitova

The headline complex of a creolized media text: the right to be called a text (based on the German press)

• T. A. Lenkova

Nonlinear dynamics of the linguistic system: how fractals function in medical discourse texts (based on English-language material)

• S. A. Khakhalova

Linguistic objectification of olfactory features of the concepts WEALTH and POVERTY in the Russian linguistic consciousness

• N. V. Pankratova

Comparative and Contrastive Research

Figurative units in Yu Hua’s novel “To Live” and techniques for their translation into Russian

• I. Y. Pak
• Chuyu Fan

Structure and linguistic representatives of the concept КЪАДЫН/WOMAN in Crimean Tatar and English

• A. O. Mevliutova

Tactile imagery in Russian and Chinese metaphor and phraseology: by the example of the verbs “grip” / 握 (wò), “pinch” / 捏 (niē), “pat” / 拍 (pâi)

• E. A. Yurina
• Tao Wang

Strategies for translating Chuvash poetry in Russian and English linguocultures (based on L. Filippova’s poem “Ҫеҫпӗл йӗрӗпе”)

• A. I. Ivanova

The research field of heritage languages: structure, geography, themes, and key development vectors

• K. A. Podlutskaya
• J. V. Bogoyavlenskaya

Language Teaching Techniques

Implementation of AI-based chatbots in the translation training of linguistics students (using English as an example)

• A. S. Boksha
• M. V. Vlavatskaya

Sociological survey as a material for developing critical thinking in learners of Russian as a foreign language

• N. A. Khan

Experimental training of foreign philology students in working with Russian precedent utterances from poetic sources: results and prospects

• O. A. Kunnikova