Raikhan O. Tuksaitova

the article is devoted to the history of street names in Astana, and a classification based on the lexical and semantic characteristics of toponyms has been established. A large group consists of anthroponyms given in honor of famous people, among whom heroes of the Great Patriotic War occupy a special place, such streets as Aliya Moldagulova, Manshuk Mametova, Talgata Bigeldinov. Symbolic and natural landscape names of streets are also revealed.