The system and structure analysis of 17th-century Tomsk uezd family names (lexical field ''Proper Names'')

Anthroponyms are good data to study both the language and culture of the people who created them. Their analysis provides information about the language of the era when the name was formed, cultural contacts of the people, social relations and features of their thinking. This paper offers the research of the origin of non-Christian family names of 17th-century Tomsk uezd (district) inhabitants in the system-structural aspect with elements of historical and cultural analysis. As part of the analysis language information of a proper name is studied: the meaning of the stems of last names, their structure (onomastics formants). On the basis of the meaning of pre-onomastic anthroponyms of non-Christian origin the lexical field ''Proper Names'' is defined with microfields ''Place Names'' (Belosludtsov, Vyat-kin, Kazantsev, Kostromitinov), ''Ethnonyms'' (Argunov, Grechaninov, Zyrenin, Permyakov, Rusinov, Tsyganov), ''Personal Names'': a) of ancient Russian origin (Boltin, Bereza, Koshcheev), b) of Turkic origin (Bakhmetov, Muratov, Osanov), c) of Polish origin (Kash-pirov). The structure of anthroponyms is represented by the same word-formation means as in Russian surnames in general: the dominant formants are -sky /-skoy /-tsky /-tskoy, -ov / -ev, -in. In addition, a significant part of anthroponyms is not formed by family suffixes. Having examined the structure and semantics of the names of the lexical field ''Proper Names'', one can get some historical and cultural information about the history of settlement of the region: people from Central Russia moved to Tomsk from the north (Vologdin, Vilezhanin), south (Astrakhantsev, Bryanchenin, Galichenin), from Central Russia (Volodimirets, Novgorodets), the Urals (Verkhoturtsev) from other Siberian burgs (Tobolsky, Tyumenets, Narymets). Anthroponyms formed from ethnonyms indicate the multinational population of Tomsk district, represented both by Russian and indigenous peoples of the Russian state: Zyrians, Karelians, Corsacs, Circassians, and others (Zyrianov, Korelov, Korsakov, Cherkasov), as well as by foreigners: Poles, Lithuanians, Greeks, and others (Polyakov, Litvin, Grechaninov). A large number of names of Turkish origin testify to the close proximity and cohabitation of Russian and Turkic peoples. The microfields allow to speak about the representation of the concept ''Mine - Other'', which in this material is realized in its second part (''Other'') in the words naming ''outsiders'' - people from other cities and countries.

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