Pushkin and Abai: portraits of classics in Russian discourse

The article deals with the study of the methods of naming and addressing the creator of the Russian literary language A.S. Pushkin and the founder of Kazakh written literature Abai Kunanbayev. The study was carried out on the material of two subcorpora: texts about Pushkin and Abai. The total volume of the corpus was 79 texts (89,286 words). The genre composition of the corpus is diverse and includes articles, essays, letters, social network texts, poems, interviews, lectures, notes. It is pointed out that numerous names and addresses to A. Pushkin and Abai, expressed by artistic means, reveal the glory and love of the people for the poets, show the diversity of attitudes to and perceptions of Pushkin and Abai, help to understand in what context and with what connotation their names were mentioned, emphasizing various aspects of their personality and heritage.