This article tries to represent the category of space in Russian culinaronyms from the perspective of linguistics. The study owns its relevance to thematicity embedded in the culinaronyms and the disclosure of their features through the concept of space. The authors analyze the formal representation of the category of space in the semantic structure of culinaronyms. The results show that the space in Russian culinaronyms is presented implicitly and explicitly, moreover, the space in Russian culinaronyms expresses the following representations: place, space, movement and "zero" place. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the space-related ideas, to characterize the relationship between cooking and space in the nomination, and to determine linguistic means for expressing the category of space in Russian culinaronyms.