Русские гиппологические наименования в сопоставлении с другими славянскими

This paper presents the first attempt at explaining Russian hippologic names. In the study, the author describes the semantic characteristics of horse colour terms and gives the etymologic definitions of the most important Proto-Slavic lexical elements as well as loanwords. The analysis is supplemented by a list of some 70 horse colour terms and more than 150 derivatives existing in the Russian language and usage