Toponymy Can Be Alive Authors Mikhail Rozhansky Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.46.957 Published 2015-12-12 Issue No. 46 (2015): quarters Section Short articles How to Cite Toponymy Can Be Alive. (2015). Project Baikal, 12(46), 92-92. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.46.957 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: toponymy, city space, Irkutsk, historical memory, pragmatics Abstract The author thinks that any discussion on the historical restoration of toponyms in Irkutsk is unpromising and offers to treat toponyms as a resource for vitalizing the city space. This could be a priority approach to the problems of city toponymy. Author Biography Mikhail Rozhansky Ph.D. in Philosophy, scientific director of the Center for Independent Social Research (Irkutsk)