Ergonyms in the Urban Onomastic Space of Harbin and the Prospects for Their Use in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

The article is devoted to the study of ergonyms of the urban onomastic space of Harbin. The purpose of the work is to study ergonyms in the aspect of the peculiarities of their functioning in the onomastic space of Harbin and the possibility of their use in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The sources of the study are fragments of the "Dictionary of Harbin Lexicon", memoirs of Russian Harbin residents, works on the history of Harbin and the language of the eastern Russian diaspora. The article uses a comprehensive approach to the study of the material, in line with which motivational and word-formation analysis of proper names are used. The main principle of the nomination of objects is its correlation with human activity. Semantic models of ergonyms are formed by private motivated features: person's surname, ethnicity, social and industrial activity. Word-formation models are created based on Russian onomastic models. Based on the results of the analysis, examples of assignments for students are proposed when studying such sections of Russian as a foreign language as lexicology and word-formation.