The article is devoted to the activities of national divisions in the power structures of the Tersk province, which was transformed into a district that was part of the North-Caucasus Region in 1924. The administrative center of the Tersk province (district) was the city of Pyatigorsk. The article examines the system of power in this region of the North Caucasus and the place occupied in it by national units that resolved issues on the problems of national minorities: national party sections, councils of national minorities under the departments of public education, commissioners for national minorities, and others.
During the years of the new economic policy, the Soviet government was forced to use, without officially recognizing, the idea of cultural and national autonomy, which the ideologists of Bolshevism considered incompatible with the idea of «proletarian internationalism». The most important element of this extraterritorial autonomy was the system of representation of national minorities in government bodies. National structures were called upon to take into account the cultural and everyday characteristics of representatives of dispersed ethnic groups living in the region, to assist the authorities in carrying out measures to involve them in Soviet, cultural and economic construction.
The most active on the Terek were district and province Armenian sections. They worked among the 25,000 Armenian population of the district, which was second only to Russians and Ukrainians in number. The reasons for the creation, forms and methods of work of national sections, the reasons for their liquidation are analyzed. At that time, the Armenian sects were assigned the tasks to neutralize religious organizations and national parties that operated in the pre-Soviet period, to reorient the Armenian population from «bourgeois organizations» towards the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government. It is analyzed how the abolition of the Tersk District and the liquidation of national sections coincided in an amazing way, not only in the Terek and the North Caucasus, but also throughout the country.

The article deals with the problem of authorship of one of the first essays on Ossetia and Ossetians that appeared in the periodical press of the Caucasus. The name of the author of the «Letters from Ossetia» published in the «Tiflis Vedomosti» from issue to issue in the autumn of 1830 remained unknown for a long time. However, there were not so many specialists at the headquarters of the Separate Caucasian Corps who were able to provide readers with such detailed information about the history, ethnography and geography of South Ossetia. Despite the fact that the newspaper was published by a team of authors, a comparative analysis of various publications about Ossetia of this period allows us to conclude that the essay was most likely based on the material of G.S. Gordeev, the author of the statistical and economic description of the «Distance of the Mountain peoples» in the well-known collection «Review of Russian Possessions beyond the Caucasus». It was Gordeev who conducted reconnaissance in the lands of the Ossetians, knew the names of all the tracts and was well oriented on the terrain. Previously, «Letters from Ossetia», getting into various collections, were cited as essays by an anonymous author. The analysis of the stylistics of the text and the facts leaves no doubt that the author of the «Letters from Ossetia» is G.S. Gordeev. Thanks to Gordeev’s detailed account, historians have comprehensive information about General Rennenkampf’s expedition to the Ossetian mountains. We can imagine the scale, nature and results of the military operation. In addition, in the essay, the author also provides detailed statistical data on the number of Ossetians in the period described. Comparison of the analyzed source with the testimonies of other participants in the events and historians of the Caucasian War, such as I.F. Blaramberg and V. Chudinov allows us to see a more complete picture of what happened in South Ossetia in 1830. Comparison of statistical data provided by Gordeev in his essay with figures from other sources also makes it possible to clarify the demographic situation in South Ossetia in the first third of the XIX century, to trace the dynamics of the population of Sothern Ossetian communities.

The article is devoted to some facts of the office and public life of the famous general of the Kuban Cossack troops, one of the first historians of the Black Sea of the XIX century - Ivan Diomidovich Popko, the author of books and articles on the history of the Black Sea, Kuban, and Tersk Cossacks, literary works in an eventful «Psekup» period of his military service from 1864 to 1871. A lot of works on the life of the general were published. They concern many aspects of his biography, but in most cases everything published, ranging from biography and ending with cultural and writing activities, is based on official sources and documents, periodic press. They allowed the authors of research to quite comprehensively highlight the life of the hero of the article. However, the history of the life of the general was far from being studied until the end, there is still painstaking work to specify many facts of his life.
The more interesting it is to learn about some aspects of his life from what is called the first-hand source, his personal letters. In the State Archive of the Stavropol Territory in the Foundation 377 Case No. 7 is kept. The case contains collected letters addressed to a close friend of General, Vasily Fedorovich Zolotarenko in St. Petersburg. Among them there were 12 letters written by the historian to a friend to any commander of the Psekupsky regiment of the Kuban Cossack troops, in the period from 1864 to 1871. It is these letters that served a source base for writing this article. Letters illuminate some aspects of both service and private life I.D. Popko, as well as give a valuable opportunity to familiarize themselves and further study the history of military, administrative and cultural and educational activities of the first historian of the Black Sea in the Trans-Kuban region.

The functioning of the health care system in the territories of the USSR occupied by the German army during the Great Patriotic War, in which about 85 million people lived before their capture by the enemy, can be said with a certain degree of convention. The plundering of the occupied territories and the provision of Germany with cheap labor did not imply the adoption of measures by the occupiers aimed at improving the living conditions of the local population, providing them with qualified and comprehensive medical care. At the same time, the presence of the German army in contact with the inhabitants of the occupied territories forced the occupation authorities to take measures to ensure their own security and maintain the required standard of living. In this regard, the occupants, having dismantled the system of public health protection that existed in Soviet times, allowed the work of its individual elements to continue. In a number of cases, medical educational institutions operated in the occupied territories – institutes, medical faculties of universities, technical schools and schools, whose task was to train specialists of higher and secondary profile for work in medical institutions for the population. The article examines the issues related to the reasons for their discovery and the conditions of functioning in the territories captured by the German army during the war, highlights the general and distinctive features that characterize the process of training medical personnel in the occupied regions of the USSR.

The battle of the Caucasus 1942–1943 became one of the longest and largest battles of the Great Patriotic War. Various studies in Russia and abroad are devoted to its study. However, many aspects of the Soviet-German confrontation in the North Caucasus require deeper research. This article draws attention to the problem of losses of German troops during the battle of the Caucasus. Their assessment in domestic and foreign publications differs markedly. The solution to this problem required the study of various statistical sources. The author established the fact of underestimation of figures in the monthly reports of the department of registration of losses of the Wehrmacht. The evidence of this was the data of the medical and sanitary service of the 1st Panzer Army and the 17th Army. The data of the personal records of the personnel of the German ground forces turned out to be more objective. Soviet documents of the Transcaucasian and North Caucasian fronts became the source of information on the number of captured military personnel of the armies of Germany and its allies. The analysis of the dynamics of monthly death toll of German troops during the battle for the Caucasus was carried out. It shows that German suffered the greatest losses during the offensive in 1942 and during the withdrawal from the North Caucasus at the beginning of 1943. In total, during the battle of the Caucasus, the German ground forces lost more than 315 thousand killed, captured, wounded and sick. This figure does not include air and navy personnel, collaborators and German allies.

The development of the Caucasus by Russia was not without the use of armed forces to fight the mountain peoples. They did not want to obey the laws of the empire and launched a war against it, effectively using the advantages that the natural environment of the region gave them. For the Russian troops, the local natural and climatic situation was unusual, which affected the effectiveness of the conduct of hostilities. The enemy was well adapted to fight in war conditions in mountainous and wooded areas. It required a significant change both in the tactics and strategy of warfare, and in the training of personnel and their equipment. More attention had to be paid to the arrangement and protection of communications, which became one of the priorities of the command. The troops were involved in the construction of roads and felling clearings through difficult areas of the territory. Highlanders skillfully used ambushes, surprise attacks, skillfully used natural shelters as fortifications. Under the circumstances, individual regiments were specialized for operations in specific landscape and climatic conditions, which made it possible to reduce losses during combat clashes with the enemy. It was necessary to adopt the military experience of the opponent, often acting the way the highlanders themselves did. All this made it possible to end the prolonged confrontation and break the resistance of the enemy.

The features of the clash of interests between Russia and Great Britain in Eastern Persia have not been sufficiently studied in Russian and foreign historiography. The subject of research, as a rule, is the contradictions between the two empires in general in Persia. Eastern Persia occupied an important strategic position, acting as a buffer between British India and Russian Turkestan. In the last third of the XIX – early XX centuries. the region is becoming an object of close attention of London and St. Petersburg. Military and scientific expeditions map the region and study its potential in case of war.
The subject of research in this article is the clash of interests between Russia and Great Britain in two important provinces of Eastern Persia in Sistan and Balochistan. They were directly adjacent to the borders of India, so Great Britain and Russia gave them priority attention. Materials of Russian travelers, reports of diplomats and materials of discussions in the British Parliament serve as important historical sources. Based on the analysis of the sources presented, the author examines the policy of Great Britain in these provinces, aimed at weakening the state institutions of Persia and supporting the separatist aspirations of the local population. The most important direction of the British policy in Sistan and Balochistan is the fight against the possible expansion of Russian influence in the provinces.
The author emphasizes the desire of Russian expeditions, in addition to studying this region, to resist the British in the struggle for the sympathy of the local population. The Russians explained the difficulties of carrying out work in Sistan and Balochistan, in addition to difficult geographical conditions, by the remoteness of the provinces from the borders of Russia, especially Balochistan.
In conclusion, the author emphasizes the acute nature of the relationship between Russia and Great Britain in Sistan and Balochistan, including the sympathy of the local population. However, Russians and the British have never resorted to physical elimination of each other. The 1907 agreement transfers Sistan and Balochistan to the sphere of influence of Great Britain, securing its position in this region.

The article expands the scientific understanding of the history of the relationship and mutual influence of the formation process of the Russian system of women’s education with the development of civic engagement in the country. The study showed that the history of the development of women’s education in pre-revolutionary Russia is crucially connected with the active engagement of society in this direction in the person of both individual, most prominent and effective representatives of it, and united within the framework of non-political, primarily charitable, organizations. The tone in the formation of a certain system of women’s education was set by the authorities represented by, first of all, Catherine II and such members of the ruling house as Empresses Maria Feodorovna and Maria Alexandrovna. But, in the conditions of the obvious inability of the authorities to ensure the organization and development of a full-blooded education system in the country, women’s education becomes an object of application of the emerging public forces in the Russian Empire. The strength of the traditions of charity in the national culture, including the acceptance and official encouragement by the authorities of the charitable behavior of citizens, has led to a tangible immersion of many representatives of the propertied and educated segments of the population in social care for the creation and development of a women’s education system. At the same time, the constantly growing positive dynamics of the process was determined in many ways and obviously by a small number of other legitimate opportunities for selfrealization of people with an active lifestyle who voluntarily united for joint actions with charitable purposes. It is important that women themselves were one of the significant factors in the process. Thus, the country received powerful assistance in solving the problem of introducing more and more girls to education – future educators of new generations of Russians of all classes and potential participants in socio-economic relations. And, at the same time, by the actions described above, the socially active part of the Russian population participated in the creation of a system of horizontal ties and relations as the basis of its civil society.

From time to time, there is a continuing polemics about the nature and destiny of Russian culture. Is it possible to speak of Russian culture as a homogeneous, unified whole or, as Yuri Lotman stated, history of Russian culture sees itself as a chain of explosions? Really, Russian culture has often been referred to as a culture of explosions, that is to say, of discontinuity and abrupt rifts. The question arises, can Russian culture be characterised as culture of discontinuity, or has there always been a solid kernel which continues to drive it forward, giving a common ground to the social being of the people?
In the opinion of the author, it is possible to explain this phenomenon only in the context of Russian history. Every turn of Russian history was accompanied by a great cultural upheaval, and caused fierce cultural and historical debates, often with appeals and real actions to deny or re-write the past of country. As examples we can recall the drastic modernization turn to the West by Peter the Great or the post-revolution desire to do away with classical Russian literature at the dawn of Bolshevist power or the post-Soviet attempts to cross out the Soviet period in history and culture after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The very uniqueness of Russian history was, according to Yuri Lotman, «the everacting factor, which then spontaneously and unconsciously to the culture, openly and even emphatically determines the way of its development».
The same phenomena can be observed in Russia today, when our culture is facing the complexities of the modern world, which are due to the ambiguous effects of globalization, technological changes in everyday life (so called digitalization), which leads to a significant reformatting the social consciousness and the degradation of many religious and ethic values. It seems that Russian society (and culture as its integral component) was again at a crossroads, faced at the turn of XX – XXI centuries with the threat of change of the civilizational vector of development, so the search for optimal forms of social life remains a pressing issue on the agenda.
The author offers some reflections on the fate of culture in the context of the dramatic upheavals of the Russian history.

The article presents the problem of putting into practice the main directions of state policy, which was later called the «Soviet project». Along with the undoubted successes of the all-Union policy in the North Caucasus, it should also be noted that the leveling of the traditional specifics of the region led to the inhibition of some plans of the Soviet government, there were not the results that the central government hoped for.
The article is written in line with a new trend in Russian historiography - historical anthropology. In regional studies, the history of small towns has not yet become an object of interdisciplinary analysis, although it is a frontier topic that requires the joint efforts of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and specialists in other humanities. The object of the study was the population of small towns in North Ossetia, which by a directive method turned from rural residents into townspeople. One of the most important directions was the formation of urban settlements by merging several promising villages and the formation of a city. Cities specialized in those industries that were provided with local raw materials.
At the same time, traditional forms of dormitories and farming were not taken into account. The creation of cityforming enterprises expanded the labor opportunities of «new citizens» who adopted professions unknown to themselves and moved away from agriculture over time.
On the basis of a corpus of heterogeneous documents, an attempt has been made to study the folding mentality of new urban residents, yesterday’s collective farmers. The study of the issue showed that traditional and urban forms of dormitories, cultures and mentalities coexisted in small towns, which represented a peculiarity in the process of urban environment development.
The study of the features of the socio-cultural, economic, psychological formation of «new citizens» makes it possible to fill in the problems in the study of an important scientific direction «urban history».

The article is devoted to the consideration of problems of legal regulation of public relations arising in ensuring child safety in traffic conditions. Road safety legislation is being analysed. Risk factors affecting the road transport environment have been identified.
It is justified to expand the scope of application of article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and to include cases of violation of obligations to protect the rights and interests of children, expressed in the absence of measures to ensure their safety by a parent or legal representative, Who was driving when the child was in it, having committed an offence, administrative liability for which is provided by certain articles of Chapter 12 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, to aggravating circumstances.
It was concluded that it was advisable to keep records of the offences provided for in some articles of chapter 12 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, considered by the commissions for minors and the protection of their rights, where the parent or legal representative was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.35 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation for violation of obligations to protect the rights and interests of children, expressed in the absence of measures to ensure their safety in traffic conditions.

The history of the formation of domestic legislation is not covered by modern textbooks of labor law. This provision does not trace the formation of factory legislation as a justification for the role of the labor movement and the resolution of labor conflicts in its regulatory meaning. Insufficient attention to the principle of historicism in labor law can lead to errors in reflecting certain patterns of development of the institution of collective labor dispute resolution.
This article reflects a complete comprehensive analysis of the reasons and conditions for the need to introduce legal regulation of wage labor and the resolution of labor conflicts in pre-revolutionary Russia, where the decisive role belongs to the workers’ movement for their rights with the rapid development of industrial production and the presence of disagreements between workers and industrialists. The identification of the prerequisites for the development of factory legislation expands the understanding of the social processes of that time that contributed to the emergence of factory legislation, enriches the stock research base, has a certain influence on the systematization of labor legislation norms. This article examines the stages of the formation of labor legislation arising under the pressure of the strike and strike movement of the working class. The contradictions of labor and capital required the regulation of mutual relations at the level of legislation, were a catalyst for its development and implementation. The authors analyze the unrestricted exploitation of labor, as well as the positive impact on the development and consolidation of legal norms at the level of factory laws of foreign law. In modern research works, insufficient attention is paid to the problem of the emergence of factory legislation, this study
will fill in the gaps in the formation of domestic labor law.
The article analyzes individual factory laws, the authors turn to archival documents that substantiate their point of view in the meaning of the prerequisites for the emergence of factory legislation for the entire social life of Russian society. The authors have identified the most characteristic prerequisites for the emergence of labor legislation regulating wage labor in general and the resolution of collective labor disputes, in particular. Attention is paid to the development and consolidation of norms establishing the procedure for resolving labor conflicts, allowing the introduction of strikes and strikes into the legal field. It is noted that the current legislation, protecting the state foundations, included some concessions to workers, while continuing to openly contain repressive measures against strikers. The problem of fixing the minimum socio-economic and labor rights and guarantees of workers in the norms of factory laws, which are the foundations of domestic factory legislation, is investigated.

The article is devoted to the study of topical problems of improving antimonopoly legislation in order to regulate public relations arising in the activities of digital platforms. The article analyzes the provisions of the latest regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and foreign states, dedicated to the determination of the legal status of digital platforms. Analysis of foreign legislation made it possible to identify existing approaches to the legal regulation of digital platforms, which can act as a guideline in the development of regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, as well as contribute to the prevention, identification and suppression of commercial practices of digital platforms that harm legal relations in the field of protection of competition and prevention of illegal monopolistic activity. The normative and doctrinal definitions of the concepts of «digital platform», «big data», «network effects» are considered. The author’s assessment of the correspondence of these concepts to the real economic activity of digital platforms is given. It is concluded that it is advisable to consolidate the definitions of the concepts of «digital platform», «big data», «network effects», «ecosystem» in the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation. The need to amend the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation is substantiated in order to take into account the influence of «big data» and «network effects» on the state of real or potential competition in the markets in which digital platforms operate. The problems of analyzing the commodity market in the digital economy and the activities of digital platforms have been identified. The conclusion is made about the discrepancy between the established methods of analyzing the commodity market to determine the dominant position and the state of competition in the event that the subjects of economic activity are digital platforms. New effective approaches to analyzing the state of the market when considering cases of violation of antimonopoly legislation committed by digital platforms are proposed.

The purpose of this article is to study the issues of legislative regulation of innovation clusters in the system of financial and tax law. Some aspects of the problems in the field of tax incentives for innovation clusters are studied. The priority goal of the study is to conduct an up-to-date analysis of legislative trends that accompany innovation clusters. The study contributes to the formation of approaches to the value, effectiveness and targeting of financial and legal incentives that affect the development of innovation clusters.
At the same time, the authors proceeded from an interdisciplinary approach, since the problem of the legal status of innovation clusters inevitably affects the subject of regulation of various branches of law and has both constitutional and legal, financial, legal, civil, administrative and other aspects.
For the most correct and uniform understanding of the elements of the social relations under consideration, the authors pay attention to the categorical and conceptual apparatus, which reflects intersectoral relations and the dual legal nature of the studied relations arising from the functioning of innovative clusters. Generalization and systematization of the main directions, trends of state policy on the development of legal regulation of innovation clusters made it possible to reveal the relevance and importance of financial support from public authorities as an incentive for innovative development of the economy.
The interaction of sciences significantly increases the effectiveness of financial and legal research. Innovation clusters are also considered in the context of the relationship between law and economics. Only interdisciplinary approaches with indisputable consideration of foreign legislative experience, including law enforcement practice, should be the basis for scientific and legal understanding of the legal status of innovation clusters, stimulating the activity of innovation clusters as locomotives of the modern economy, developing financial and legal instruments that contribute to the effective implementation of cluster policy in the modern world. legal field.
The conducted analysis of publications shows the absence of scientific monographic studies devoted to the study of the financial and legal nature of innovation clusters. The author believes that in the modern conditions of the development of the digital economy, which creates new challenges for innovation, the study of the financial and legal essence of innovation clusters is important and timely.
For the most correct and uniform understanding of the elements of the social relations under consideration, the authors pay attention to the categorical and conceptual apparatus, which reflects intersectoral relations and the dual legal nature of the studied relations arising from the functioning of innovative clusters. Generalization and systematization of the main directions, trends of state policy on the development of legal regulation of innovation clusters made it possible to reveal the relevance and importance of financial support from public authorities as an incentive for innovative development of the economy.
The article also notes the underdevelopment of the legislative and legal field of economic clustering and the negative impact of the legislative factor on its full development. Legislation in the field of innovation (clustering) is not systemic, it is dominated by numerous disparate by-laws, including those at the regional level.
Much attention is paid by the author to the financial and legal essence and nature of innovative clusters as an organizational and legal form of attracting investments. The financial and legal essence of innovation clusters is determined by the following important factors. The legal regulation of investment clusters covers wide areas of the country’s public life and is part of the general financial and legal regulation of cash flows – investments that are included in the financial system of the state. Innovation clusters attract investments, which are one of the backbone categories of financial law. The main areas of financial and legal regulation of investment clusters also include the budget vector, which is realized through the effectiveness of the state as an investor through budget allocations. Obviously, the tax regulation of innovation clusters is characterized by an incentive-stimulating and mobilization orientation. The practical experience of the application of legislation in the area under consideration, as well as the most effective methods of stimulating innovation clusters are studied. The study was carried out on the basis of general scientific interdisciplinary and specific methods (formal-legal, comparative-legal, structural-functional).

The article discusses approaches to psychological and pedagogical support of adolescents in the educational space in Russia and the Republic of South Ossetia. Psychological and pedagogical support of adolescents in the educational environment is considered, on the one hand, as a subject of professional activity of a teacher, psychologist, teacherpsychologist, social pedagogue, and, on the other hand, as a tool for providing psychological, social, pedagogical support. This is especially true for the prevention of the development of deviations in adolescents. Recently, the indicators of deviant behavior of children and adolescents have changed significantly, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Statistical data on crimes committed by teenagers in the Stavropol Territory indicate a downward trend in certain types of crimes. However, the conducted research shows that a teenager experiences, among other things, a deformation of certain forms of norm consciousness, that is, a change in the external side of behavior entails, among other things, a deformation of the internal personal sphere with a weakening of the system of internal control and selfregulation. Thus, the analysis of statistical data, as well as data obtained experimentally, show that at present, there are not only quantitative, but also qualitative characteristics of deviant behavior in adolescents. In many ways, they take the form of torts, that is, such offenses for which the state establishes various forms of legal responsibility: from disciplinary to criminal law. The reasons for deviant behavior are quite diverse. In general, they can be divided into: causes caused by the social environment, the continuum of the adolescent’s life activity; physiological factors: burdened heredity, pathologies of the central nervous system, features of the puberty period and much more. Therefore, a promising direction of modern psychological research is the search for psychological innovations in the context of psychological support of adolescents, aimed at developing attitudes by minors to systematic work on themselves, the diagnosis of adolescents plays a decisive role in this process, timely identification of those who violate the norms of social structure by their behavior.
The article examines the goals and objectives, identifies the main problems of the institutional and normative content of psychological support of students in the educational process in Russia and South Ossetia.

The relevance of this article is determined by its theoretical and practical significance. The theoretical significance of the study of legal policy in the field of antimonopoly activity in the conditions of digitalization of the economy is due to the fact that there is insufficient scientific study of the issues of improving the institute of antimonopoly regulation, taking into account the tendency of economic entities to abuse in the field of competitive relations using new digital technologies; the current state of development of the theory of administrative law shows the formation of the initial stage of research activities aimed at optimizing legal policy in the field of competition protection in the conditions of digitalization of the economy in terms of quantitative and qualitative indicators. The practical significance of this study is due to the fact that the proper scientific justification of the legal policy in the field of competition protection in the context of digital transformation depends on the further development of the norms of the Russian antimonopoly legislation and legislation on administrative responsibility for offenses infringing on the established order of competition, since improving the systematic approach to the development and implementation of this policy can contribute to the introduction of subsequent innovations in the said legislation. This article identifies the main shortcomings of the legal policy in the field of antimonopoly activity in the conditions of digitalization of the economy, due to the emphasis of the subjects of legal policy on the technologies themselves, and not on a systematic approach to its development, which assumes consideration of positive and negative factors of their application and complex interaction of public authorities in this area. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that, based on the analysis of modern legal policy in the field of competition protection in the context of digital transformation, its further prospects are determined, associated with increasing the level of consistency and comprehensive development of its doctrinal foundations, which can contribute to the formation of a regulatory framework corresponding to the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution and stimulate subsequent research in this area.

The paper covers a range of issues related to the study of personal South Ossetian pre-election discourse specificity from the standpoint of formation standard strategies for this type of political communication on ethnic grounds in the mode of the bilingual Ossetian-Russian language code. The research was carried out in line with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the achievements of discourse studies, communication studies, linguistic conceptology, cultural linguistics and linguistic sociology within anthropocentric paradigm. In accordance with the stated directions, the material under consideration is described on the methodological platforms of discursive, contextual and conceptological analysis, comparative and descriptive methods, multifunctionality of introspection and interpretation. The empirical data for sociological, ethnological and cognitive study of the 2017 South Ossetian pre-election campaign linguistic features were the texts of speeches, meetings with voters and initiative groups, debates, statements, election program, materials from the official websites of South Ossetia, as well as scripts of video recordings of the South Ossetian presidential candidate in the republic. Ossetia L.Kh. Tibilov. The relevance and novelty of the research is due to the lack of research on this segment of the South Ossetian political discourse, which is in the formation process, an increased interest to the self-determined state public life. The authors carried out a detailed analysis of the text fragments of L. Kh. Tibilov’s personal discourse as a pre-election race participant and producer of universally significant ethnic values and cognitive models, represented in the dominant political concepts and ideologemes, as well as reference communication strategies and tactics through Ossetian and Russian-language single-channel communications, or the mixed channel of bilingual communication and its genre varieties. The paper describes the status, ritual, ethnical and linguistic characteristics of the candidate’s integration and orientation strategies as prevailing tools for influencing the electorate.

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the mythological idea of fate and its expression in the concept and in the meanings of words that verbalize it (based on the material of explanatory and encyclopedic dictionaries and in the works of Russian literature of the XVIII–XIX centuries). The paper reveals that the dominant of the synonymic series representing the idea of fate is the lexeme fate. The analysis of the content of this nomination in meanings and images, representing it in the naive picture of the world of the Russian person is the subject of the work. Based on the collected material, the author demonstrates the semantics of impersonal-fatalistic perception of the idea of fate both on the material of literary texts and in the content of definitions of certain personal nouns in the normative dictionaries of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The author demonstrates that the semantic component ‘fatal inevitability’ could be realized in the pragmatic part of the meaning of a certain personal name included in the lexical and semantic group ‘fate’, could be implemented in the value of a personal name or as component ‘deprivation‘ that is characteristic of lexemes a blind man, the madman, or as component ‘acquisition’, which is typical for the words sleepwalker, whimsical, sloth (the result of exposure to a compelling, unknown force, with his representative or executor, a her will). The author further shows the verbalization in the public consciousness of the Russian people of the time studied of everyday ideas about fate as a blind case that gives a person good, which express the belief in the existence of an individualized deity of fate that helps a person. This understanding of predestination is expressed in a number of contexts in the literature of the XVIII-XIX centuries, as well as in dictionary interpretations of such lexemes as happiness, lucky, happy, in the normative dictionaries of this time, perhaps they are based on the oldest Russian ideas about a miracle. In General, the analysis allows the author to conclude that the idea of fate is ethnospecific and ambivalent in the Russian public consciousness of the XVIII – XIX centuries.

The article describes a fragment of the Russian language picture of the world «Fantastic birds», represented by the lexico-semantic group of the same name, from the point of view of paradigmatics, semantics and linguocultural specificity.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the structural and semantic connections of the typical nominations of fantastic birds included in the lexico-semantic group «Fantastic birds» in the Russian language, and the specifics of the field organization of the lexico-semantic in Russian language.
The component and context analysis of the explication of the semantic composition of the content of the lexemes under consideration in the Russian linguoculture is actual. The analysis of paradigmatic connections and similar changes in the semantic structure of the borrowed and Russian nominations related to the lexico-semantic group “Fantastic Birds”, the meanings of which respectively get or actualize the Russian linguoculture national specifics, is fundamentally new in the article.
The article concludes that the original mythological meaning of the nominations has transformed into the meaning of ‘fantastic bird’, which gradually loses its connection with mythology and acquires characteristic parameters that are significant for Russian speakers, the volume and degree of expression of which is associated with the location of lexemes in the field structure of the lexico-semantic group «Fantastic birds» in the Russian linguoculture.
Based on the contexts of existence of lexeme which were obtained using the sampling method through the National Corps of the Russian language, the author found that the Russian language is characterized by the development on the basis of the studied nominations of proper names, which are homonymous words in relation to these lexemes, the appearance of ethnospecific semes in the meaning structure of the nominations, contamination of the meanings of some words, the formation of the same type of cognitive metaphor based on the direct meaning of the lexemes, reflecting the similarity, contiguity and associative connections between the target area and the source area in the Russian language.
The research materials were obtained during the work with different types of Russian dictionaries (encyclopedic, mythological, ethnolinguistic, etymological, historical, explanatory, dictionaries of foreign words) and the National Corps of the Russian language and cover the period from the 11th to the 21st centuries.

The study of the phenomenon of linguistic personality (LP) is currently central in the modern field of linguistic science since the object of the research - a human being - is at the center of the linguistic paradigm. The study of LP of a conference interpreter is extremely challenging as it contributes to self-knowledge and self-improvement. Studying linguistic and communicative consciousness of a person in a moment of interpreting allows expanding the framework of the perception of the world, knowledge about the manifestations of linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena. The paper describes the concept of LP, sufficiently developed by Yu.N. Karaulov, which seems representative for the purposes of the above. The urgency of the research lies in the direct consideration of LP from the standpoint of anthropocentric linguistics, viewing the interpreter’s activities directly in the heat moment of the situation, taking into account nonliguistic «unnoticed background» of discursive representations and new meanings of the context. The result of the overview of the analysis was the creation of a LP map of interaction, as well as a linguistic description of linguistic units and structures in the form in which they are present in the consciousness of the LP subject. After analyzing two text-interviews of conference interpreters, we identified and described features of the representation of LP. The practical advantages of the presented research describe individual fragments of adequate and inadequate translation choice, specifics of interpreters’ speech behavior, and the translation techniques and approaches used. In general, the analysis showed consistently objective results reflecting the actual manifestations of the LP of a simultaneous interpreter.