Review of Toponymic Studies of Altai and Siberia in the Anthropocentric Paradigm

At the turn of 20th–21st centuries there appeared a trend appeal to anthropocentric paradigm for scientific knowledge in toponymic studies. In previous period, studies relied upon properties toponyms as language units at semantic, structural, and grammatical levels. same time, ethnocultural aspect geographic names manifesting stereotypes exploring world, and, wider, worldview both contemplating man acting remained outside scope linguistic Rooted integrative approach analysis phenomena, anthropocentrism principles determined qualitatively new stage research based on activating cognitive structures mental knowledge. Thus, presented review shows that are an important source information can be extracted through modelling cultural interpretation within framework paradigm. future, applied methods extrapolated other sources