The church calendar as a genre of the sphere of religious communication (based on material of the Reverend Job Pochayevsky’s monastic fraternity editorial activity in Slovakia in the years 1923–1944)

In the study, we pay attention to the Orthodox Church calendar of 1928, which was published in Yu Lajo’s printing house, based in the village of Ladomirovo in Eastern Slovakia, by Orthodox missionaries who had emigrated from Russia. We consider the calendar as a genre of the religious sphere of communication. The object of the research is georthonyms as a peripheral lexical-semantic field of the onomastic space of the Russian language used in ‘Orthodox calendars’ in the last century. They make one of the constituent parts of the Christian sacred onomasticon, a reflection of the religious linguistic picture of the world in the early 20th century. The appeal to onomastics as a material for ethnolinguistic and linguoculturological research seems quite logical, since “...in onomastics the most significant and stable quanta of ethnocultural information are encoded” (Berezovich 2001: 34). The article uses onomastic research methods such as: descriptive, comparative, synchronous and diachronous