Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce - a valuable medicinal plant, used in world medical practice and folk medicine in Russia. As a rare, potentially vulnerable, small-numbered species, it is listed in the Red Books of the city of Moscow, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and the Vologda Region. To develop the principles of conservation of P. odoratum, a comprehensive study of the state of the species near the north-eastern border of the range is necessary. There are no special studies devoted to the study of the biology and ecology, ecological and phytocenotic association of P. odoratum in the Kirov region. The aim of the study is to identify the phytocenotic parameters and ecological conditions of P. odoratum habitats in the subzone of coniferous-broad-leaved forests within the Kirov region. The research was carried out in 33 cenopopulations in the conditions of the coniferous-broad-leaved forest subzone (Vyatsko-Polyansky, Malmyzhsky, Nolinsky, Sovetsky, Urzhumsky, Kilmezsky, Arbazhsky districts) within the Kirov region in 2000-2019. The studied coenopopulations of P. odoratum are confined to boreal coniferous forests on poor acidic soils with developed moss cover, belonging to the class Vaccinio-Piceetea Br. - Bl. in Br. - Bl., Siss. et Vlieger 1939. As a result of phytoindication of the studied habitats of P. odoratum, ecological characteristics were obtained according to the ten scales of D. N. Tsyganov. It is established that in relation to the complex of all environmental factors, the species is mesovalent. According to the combination of climatic factors, P. odoratum is a hemievalent. In relation to the complex of soil factors, P. odoratum is mesovalent and, according to all soil scales, the range of the studied habitats does not exceed the potential possible boundaries. Only on the scale of variability of soil moisture P. odoratum is a stenovalent species, which indicates a limited range of possible habitats for this factor. It was found that oligo and meso-hemerobic species predominate in plant communities with P. odoratum. The proportion of anthropotolerant species is quite low, which indicates the low resistance of the studied communities with P. odoratum to anthropogenic influences and the vulnerability of the species. High rates of apophytism were noted in the clearings, lower-in the pine forests of shrub-green moss and in the grass pine forests with the participation of P. odoratum.

The article presents the results of a micromorphological study of the vegetative organs of Euryale ferox Salisb., Nymphaeaceae. The relevance of the study is related to the fact that the species belongs to rare taxa in the region that are threatened with extinction due to its relict nature, borderline range and belonging to the subtropical floral complex of the Russian Far East. The analysis of the literature data showed that the issues of morphology, anatomy, biology and taxonomy of the species remain poorly studied. The purpose of our work is to generalize the results of the micromorphological study of E. ferox on the material from the Amur region. The studies were carried out according to the generally accepted method of microstructural analysis. Detailed descriptions of the leaf blade and petiole are given. The main histological and topographical complexes and their proportions, histochemical features are determined. The assessment of the constitutional, adaptive, and taxon-specific features of the species is given. The study of E. ferox revealed the following microstructural constitutional features: dorsoventrality of floating leaves; epistomatous leaf blade; anomocytic stomatal apparatus; the presence of astrosclereids; epidermal outgrowths (coverts and head trichomes, and hydropotes) and epidermal-subepidermal emergences (spines); general aerenchymatization of leaf and petiole tissues; compact (rather than diffuse) localization atypical for macrohydrophytes collenchyma in the petiole; atactostelia; presence of collateral and concentric conducting bundles; reduction of xylem; absence of cambium. It is shown that general aerenchymatization, reduction of conductive elements, and weak sclerification of tissues are effective adaptations of the species to the conditions of the aquatic environment. Secretory formations of epidermal origin provide waterproofing protection to plant organs. The absence of cambial activity is probably due to the shortening of the life cycle inherent in the extreme northern populations of the species. The presence of atactostela and astrosclereids in the species gives grounds to consider the species as part of the family Nymphaeaceae. However, in terms of paired concentric conducting bundles, E. ferox is close to Brasenia schreberi J. F. Gmel. from the monotypic family Cabombaceae. Further research will involve microstructural analysis of the root system and reproductive organs of the species.

The article is devoted to obtaining the relativistic matrix elements of the energy operator of electrostatic interaction of electrons. The case of configuration-diagonal matrix elements for atoms (ions) with two unfilled subshells of equivalent electrons is considered. The function of bound moments of the state of atoms (ions) with two unfilled subshells of equivalent electrons is obtained by the method of irreducible tensor operators in the representation of secondary quantization. In this case, the state function of one N subshell of equivalent electrons is obtained by coupling the N moments (ranks) of identical electron creation operators. The state function of two subshells of equivalent electrons is obtained by coupling the resulting moments (ranks) N1(N2) of the electron creation operators corresponding to the first (second) subshell of equivalent electrons. The matrix elements of the electrostatic interaction energy operator in the case of two subshells take into account the interaction energies of electrons inside the subshells and direct and exchange interactions between electrons of different subshells, which leads to the need for slope coefficients and radial integrals that depend on both angular and radial quantum numbers. Radial integrals represent linear combinations of Slater-type integrals but depend on the larger and smaller components of the Dirac-type relativistic wave functions. Recursive relations connecting two subshell configurations with different numbers of electrons in subshells are obtained for direct and exchange angular coefficients.

In recent decades the attention of specialists has been attracted more and more to the so-called "soft skills", which supply "hard skills" and make possible the successful professional career. It has become especially distinct at the present day when the accelerated development of technologies takes place and personal skills become more and more significant. In connection with these issues "soft skills" become exceedingly worthy and there appear new research projects, considering these skills in psychological and methodological aspects. It is worth mentioning that due to certain peculiarities of soft skills there is no universal definition of them. In our research the definition presented in Wikipedia is used. The author makes an attempt to analyze soft skills from the point of view of the language. The research material is presented by soft skills, found in 100 texts of vacancy advertisements published at the specialized German website for job applicants. The objective of the research was lexical-syntactic analysis of soft skills. The use of continuous sampling method allowed to extract from each text soft skills, which were considered based on different criteria. Soft skills were classified according to German realities into such types as methodological, social and personal. The most frequently soft skills used in texts were identified and the thematic areas of their use were defined. From the point of view of their compositional structure the majority of soft skills are mainly presented by enumeration, the smaller part of them finds their position in extended sentences. In conclusion the results of the conducted work are formulated. The analysis of soft skills in vacancy advertisement texts revealed that the only high potential way is the use of nouns. The knowledge of preferable skills may help in composition of "effective" advertisement texts as well as in identifying the features of character that need working out to become capable in professional sphere.

The stable appearance of various works with an indefinite ending has actualized interest in finding a starting point for the emergence of the category of "uncertainty" in literary work. The idea was formulated that it was A. S. Pushkin who was the founder of the introduction of the category of "uncertainty" in literary creativity, therefore the purpose of the study is to identify the contribution of A. S. Pushkin when designating the category of "uncertainty" in literary creativity. Materials for this study were: scientific literature on the topic of uncertainty; works by A. Pushkin. Achievement of the research goal required the solution of the following tasks: to analyze the works of A. S. Pushkin and identify works in which the phenomenon of uncertainty is manifested; determine the levels of manifestation of the phenomenon of uncertainty in the work of A. S. Pushkin; to illustrate the levels of manifestation of the phenomenon of uncertainty in the work of A. S. Pushkin. As a result of the study by the authors of the article, it was revealed that in the work of A. S. Pushkin there is a phenomenon of uncertainty and it can be traced at three levels: in the organization of the system of images (for example, the character Mazepa in the work "Poltava"), in the construction of the plot (for example, the plot of the work "Ruslan and Lyudmila"), in creating the imagery of the surreal (for example, the work "The Queen of Spades"). When creating characters, A. S. Pushkin's ambiguity is present in two types of works: the so-called "action-packed" (where characters prevail - "double bottom") and based on the duality of the world (where romantic heroes prevail). At the plot level, this phenomenon manifests itself in two forms: firstly, by designating bifurcation points, and secondly, in complete or partial obscurity of certain stages of the plot for the observer (character, reader, author). Also, uncertainty, uncertainty, ambiguity are for A. S. Pushkin the main methods for creating an unreal imagery: in the midst of a realistically depicted world, something extraordinary happens - and the character facing the extraordinary is not sure what it really was. The prospect of the study is seen in the emergence of studies of the manifestation of the category of "uncertainty" in other types of creativity, the definition of its types and classification, the description of the characteristic features in modern creativity.

The relevance of the study is due to the significance of entomological motifs in the works of L. Tolstoy and F. Dostoevsky, and in Russian literature in general. In Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical systems, insects that have a «swarm» nature most often symbolize the joy of being. The spiders included in their plot have a different semantics, the analysis of which is particularly fruitful against the background of the study of such a plot in the works of F. Dostoevsky, since the vectors of these plots have diametrically opposite directions. The subject of the research in the article is the insectoid motifs associated with the image of the spider, supported by its mythopoetic nature in both writers. The two motifs that originate in the Arachne myth - the creative and the destructive-feed to varying degrees the «spider» topic of L. Tolstoy and F. Dostoevsky. In the works of L. Tolstoy, creative motifs associated with the image of the «web of love» - a metaphor of self-sacrifice - are brought to the fore. In the works of F. Dostoevsky, on the contrary, it is dominated by motifs of a destructive nature: spiders are chthonic creatures, marking the dark beginning in the nature of the characters and associated with the theme of rebellion against the Creator. In this light, of particular interest is the point of intersection of the trajectories of the movement of the writers' artistic thought, which is represented by two parables: about the web from L. Tolstoy's short story «Karma» and about the «onion» from Dostoevsky's novel «The Brothers Karamazov». During the study, structural-semiotic, mythopoetic, comparative-historical methods, as well as methods of motivic analysis were used. Further research of entomological motifs in the space of Russian literature is extremely promising, as it allows us to penetrate the artistic anthropology and characterology of writers.

Food is a human’s vital need. The attitude towards nutrition is reflected in the cultural and everyday lifestyle of modern society, in language and communication activities. Global processes have had a particular impact on eating culture in recent decades: food from a natural, biological need of a person turns into a kind of cult, which, in addition to actually eating food, includes various human activities. That’s why the concept "food" attracts the attention of linguists by the variety of lexical and phraseological means of representation, the semantic components of which actualize the attitude within society to food issues in a particular linguistic culture. This article discusses the features of the conceptual values and image components of the "food" concept in the advertising radio discourse. Having a communicative peculiarity, advertising discourse on the radio has its own uniqueness from other types of advertising by the absence of a visual picture. The verbal component is more important since the advertising product is represented only with the linguistic means. Using the continuous sampling method, we selected eight hundred advertising audio spots then we selected texts with the words food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, cuisine, dish, dessert, menu, taste, baking and appetite. Examining the etymology and dictionary interpretations of the food lexeme, we conducted a semantic analysis of the advertising texts, in which we identified the core, near and far periphery of the "food" concept. The conceptual analysis based on the field structure allowed us to analyze the features of the concept, considering the content component (semantic field), figurative elements and associated values. The author concludes that through the prism of advertising radio discourse, it is possible to trace the changes in traditional attitudes associated with food culture. In modern Russian society there is a tendency to abandon cooking at home and as a result an increase eating out in restaurants. Ordering and delivery of ready-made food has become very popular as well. This research can be used in classes for cognitive linguistics, lexicology and text linguistics, in the training of specialists in the field of advertising and public relations.

The author analyzes expression of such a basic spatial feature of the object as width in words with root consonants [l], [l'] in Mongolic languages. The relevance of the paper is related to the fact that perceptions of space indicate an understanding of the fundamental categories of human consciousness. The purpose of the work is to establish the connection between the meaning ‘wide’ and such articulatory attribute of the root phonemes [l], [l'], as the adjacency of the tongue to the palate. In order to achieve the purpose, the following tasks were set: to identify a layer of imitative words with root phonemes [l], [l'] united by the attribute ‘wide’, as well as to analyze words of basic vocabulary formed from imitative roots with this meaning. Descriptive-synchronic, comparative methods, methods of statistical analysis and meaningful interpretation of the material are used to achieve objectives. These root consonants are considered as dominants, which contain the general sign, i.e. "wide". It is revealed that the semantics of the root primarily depends on the acoustic-articulation properties of the dominating root consonant, which carries basic information on sensually perceived phenomena, with variation of vowels, as well as umlaut and auslaut (non-dominant) consonants. Main figurative meanings are composed of the semantic potential of two or three consonant root components. It is evident that the positions of the umlaut and auslaut consonants are less significant than the position of the dominant. The considered material confirmed that the same type of consonants both in umlaut, and auslaut can express the same meaning ‘wide’ (alč ↔ čal, als ↔ sal, alt ↔ tal, ald ↔ dal). The author identifies the meaning of the word ala ‘crotch’ as the meaning initial for the development of the semantic continuum ‘wide’. Tightening of the tip of the tongue to the hard sky at the moment of pronunciation of the phonemes [l] and [l'] relates to the connection of the legs. It confirms that man himself is a source of spatial orientation. The semantics of some words expanded to ‘light, unclouded’, ‘abundant’. The study highlights the paramount importance of a specific lay of figurative words of Mongolic languages for reconstruction of the meaning of words of so-called basic vocabulary.

This article is the analysis of Kim Dong In’s literary works. Kim Dong In is a bright Korean novelist. Study of her works are very actual to date. The research of a narrative strategy and a plot of small genres in her works is led to the solution of aims and tasks of the article. Specific characters of the narration and a particular conflict is considered in the story “The Sonata of the Fire”. A polyphonic structure determining a meaningful interpretation of a literary work is revealed. Besides, it includes readers’ reception. The image of a main character of the story is analized. The analysis of a narrative organisation promotes revelation of his complicated and contradictive personality. The study of a metanarrative organisation in Kim Dong In’s novel “A Mad Artist” reveals the break of a chronotope. The article studies a creative life of a main character in the novel. The artist Solgo is showed in different principles both realistic and romantic. A high attention is paid to a genre of the novel. The analysis of a novelistic feature depicts a tragic conflict, the nature of the collision. The study uses an axiological perspective as an innovative method of technology that allows to consider the assessment nature of talent as a natural phenomenon. The problem of talent is seen as a structural category that defines the character of the protagonist”s personality, which is characterized by an ambiguously complex psychological order. The mechanism of an action of the main intrigue of the artistic situation is revealed, when in confrontation there are two equal forces: evil and good. The character’s actions reveal the dialectic of the product of good from evil, revealing the philosophical meaning of the work. Artistic analysis of the crimes of the hero bearing the destruction reveals the factors of further great creation - creation of musical masterpieces. The focus is on opposition to life and death. The artistic situation is assessed by philosophical categories, and therefore the philosophical postulate is formulated: by committing evil, the hero does good. The reception of the reader due to peculiarities of its axiological level is taken into account. The author of the article concludes that in the context of this work, the dilemma of good/evil remains open: how many readers, how many opinions, how many solutions to a given spiritual dilemma. The analysis of “Mad Artist”, which is based on a narrative aspect, is aimed at revealing metanarrative strategy of the work.