The article explains the feasibility of using zoonymic facts of monastic documents of the 16th early 18th centuries for the reconstruction of Old Russian anthroponymics. The analysis of old Russian hipponymics shows that its vocabulary is almost completely consistent with Old Russian names, nicknames and modern surnames. Zoonymic data reveals personal names that have not yet been noted in historical anthroponymic dictionaries, establishes the initial forms of names and their modification, as well as in some cases clarifies the semantics of Old Russian anthroponyms.

The article considers the zoonym system of Russian fairy tales. The author determines the species composition of the animal characters, analyses various versions of the origin of the fairy-tale zoonyms, describes the semantic and word-formation zoonimic models, identifies the zoonyms used in the texts of fairy tales and reveals zoonymic microsystems of individual works.

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