Toponymy Can Be Alive

Authors

  • Mikhail Rozhansky

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.46.957

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.

 

How to Cite

Rozhansky, M. (2015). Toponymy Can Be Alive. Project Baikal, 12(46), 92–92. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.46.957

Published

2015-12-12

Issue

Section

Short articles

Author Biography

Mikhail Rozhansky

Ph.D. in Philosophy, scientific director of the Center for Independent Social Research (Irkutsk)