The popular scientific book “Toponymic Essays of the Orenburg Region” by Candidate of Philology, associate professor Boris Aleksandrovich Moiseyev from a position of the importance of the presented linguistic material for researchers in the field of toponymics, dialectology, history is reviewed. Advantages of author's interpretation of toponyms, originality in material statement, theoretical and practical importance of essays are shown. The edition opens the wide horizons not only for local history researches, but also researches devoted to interlingual and cross-cultural interaction.