Kovalev notes, «from the point of view of proper name theory this work gives in hands of the researcher excellent, often a unique material. Igor Svyatoslavich’s entering into the Lavrentyevsky chronicle the history, appeared in it taken of chronicles of Suzdal, and was transferred to the local chronicle of Pereyaslavl Southern.Īs G.F. In the Ipatyevsky annalistic list the story about Igor’s campaign «is placed in the text of the Kiev chronicle which, in turn, got data from chronicles of Chernigov». This list is remote from the original about three centuries (1185–1190). «The Song of Igor’s Campaign» reached us in the list of the end of XV – the beginnings of the XVI centuries which was in library of a Spaso-Yaroslavsky monastery, and then was acquired by count A.I.

The multilayered objects of hydrography within a certain territory testifying to their various languages possessive, and also about processes of migrations. Hydronyms (proper names of a body of water), the writings fixed in Old Russian monuments, including in «The Song of Igor’s Campaign», owing to known stability allow to reconstruct the ethno linguistic map of the past of the East Slavic people. In particular, exactly along the rivers there was a moving of certain ethnic groups. Value of data of a hydronimiya within studying of history, language and culture of ethnos is difficult for overestimating, as water objects at an early stage of development of any civilization had paramount value. Certificates of written monuments are defined by that value, «which helps to add our idea of toponymic system on any synchronous cut, about structure of loans, their shifts and rates of adaptation, about the contacting native toponymy going back to unwritten languages and being one of the major sources of data on language of the before Russian population». Indirectly reflecting historical and geographical reality, geographical names the XI–XIII centuries keep forever sociocultural, historical, lexicological and ethno geographical information, reflect valuable data on language contacts and ancient ethnic communications, migrations of the people, culture, a life and their language consciousness.

As geographical names differ known stability and conservatism, the perspective of their studying is on a joint of history of language, etymology, lexicology and dialectology. Place names of an era of the Old Russian state, being a cultural heritage of ethnic community of east Slavs, store in itself memory of the past of the Slavic people and their representations of a world order.

Vogla river etymology