The Soviet-Period Toponymy of Severnaya Zemlya as a Reflection of Ideological Struggle

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Author: Yury S. Kostylev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2019
• Subjects: toponymy; artificial nomination; motivational patterns; toponymic system; Soviet propaganda; Northern Sea Route; Severnaya Zemlya archipelago; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Arctic; Severnaya Zemlya
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.1.009; https://doaj.org/article/13ad52b66c654eebb6a782ce45700c78

The paper deals with the names of geographical objects in the archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya, coined during the Soviet period of the exploration of the Arctic. The study looks out to the motivation of place names and aims to establish the extent to which they can form integrated toponymic systems....