Study of russian hunting vocabulary: historical aspect

Russian hunting vocabulary is special words and expressions used by hunters to refer to hunting realities. Such words and expressions are called special or professional vocabulary, and individual words are called professionalism. The vocabulary of the Russian hunting language is a unique natural thermo-system, the study of which is of interest for such sections of linguistics as terminology, lexicology, onomasiology, as well as for research in the field of cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology. Russian hunting vocabulary is an integral part of Russian hunting discourse. Her research was devoted to many works that examined different aspects of Russian hunting vocabulary. We can say that by now, out of all publications about Russian hunting vocabulary, a separate branch of knowledge has developed that has its own history. The article is devoted to the history of the study of Russian hunting vocabulary. The purpose of the article is to describe the history of studying special hunting words of the Russian language. The article is of a review nature: a look is given in retrospective of the topic of the study of hunting vocabulary. When creating the article, the following methods were used: content analysis, classification method and grouping. As a result, the history of the study of Russian hunting vocabulary was presented in the form of two stages: the stage of creating dictionaries and the stage of scientific development of hunting vocabulary. In addition, the article presents lexicographic and scientific works reflecting the history of the study of Russian hunting vocabulary, in the order of their publication and regarding their formal and meaningful characteristics. The results of the work may be of interest to specialists involved in the study of the Russian hunting language.