Linguistic Means Containing Cultural Information in Russian Fables

The article characterizes linguistic units containing cultural information in Russian fables. Such means as equivalent-lacking words, proper names (toponyms, anthroponyms, zoonyms), tropes based on equivalent-lacking lexis (epithets, similes, metaphors) are described in the article. The article analyses the above-mentioned units in diachronic aspect.

Russian fable, equivalent-lacking words, toponym, anthroponym, zoonym, diachronic aspect