Dictionary of Collective Nicknames

This book is the first experience in the Russian linguistics of the vocabulary description of collective nicknames of the Russian people (informal names of residents of various edges, cities, villages, etc), which are extracted from folklore, ethnographic sources, dialect dictionaries of the Russian language and unpublished field cards. The assembled material reflects the Russian language tradition of the XIX - early XXI century. The application to the dictionary serves as a collective nickname index, compiled by geographical principle: from the name of the territory - to the nicknamed of its inhabitants.
The dictionary is intended for specialists in linguistics, folklore, ethnography, as well as for anyone interested in the language, history and culture of the Russian people