RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)7182Research ArticleNames of Metrological Lexical Units in Thai and RussianUsane Ngaengsayengpruek-The General and Russian Linguistics Department Philological Faculty-Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia150420124879108092016Copyright © 2012, Usane Ngaengsayengpruek -.2012Nationally specific component of lexical unit meanings is determined by special division of reality and outer towards language, extra linguistic factors, which is confirmed in course of contrastive research of metrological units in the Russian and Thai languages.metrological unitscontrastive descriptionsimilarities and differencesextra linguistic factorsметрологические единицыконтрастивное описаниесходства и различияэкстралингвистические факторы