The history of Moscow University has been studied in detail and comprehensively enough for 270 years of its existence. One of the aspects neglected by researchers is the everyday side of the university existence, including that related to the problems of nutrition. At the same time, it occupies an important place in the university world, and not only naturally physiological, but also has a great culture-forming significance. Suffice it to recall the beautiful tradition of making and distributing mead, which became a kind of symbol of the renewed university of the new time. Or the image of the eternally hungry student, which is an integral part of the Russian culture of the 19th century. There are numerous sources, the most important of which, perhaps, are memoirs and recollections of former students of the university, which give a rather vivid and diverse picture of the daily life and everyday life of Moscow students, and both the general tendencies uniting different epochs and the differences caused by the course of history can be traced quite clearly. They allow us to outline with a high degree of reliability the peculiarities of the culture of everyday life of students, including in matters of food. The article discusses M.V. Lomonosov’s proposals on the organisation of students’ meals, the peculiarities of the daily life of the state-paid students who were on full state support until the middle of the 19th century, the problems of the self-paid students who lived and provided themselves with food on their own, and the spirit of camaraderie, which was the main feature of the everyday life of students.

The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of problems arising during the translation of feature films related to differences in cultural-historical contexts and sociolinguistic specificities across different countries. It examines mechanisms for transferring intertextual phenomena present in movies as well as processes involved in forming and functioning ideologemes— key symbolic constructs representing fundamental ethnic cultural values. Special attention is given to preserving the uniqueness of national cultural components in language transfer since adaptation often leads to loss of important ethnocultural characteristics. Specific examples of unsuccessful translation solutions applied to Russian and Italian films are provided, emphasizing the necessity of taking into account conceptual cultural specificity and developing effective methodologies for translating audiovisual materials that adequately preserve the author’s artistic intent. The findings highlight the importance of further development of theory and practice in analyzing cinema within modern global cultural environments. This research will be valuable for specialists working on issues concerning intercultural communication, linguistic-cultural studies, and translation science.

The paper examines interdiscursivity in fiction and focuses on the inclusion of Latin entomosemisms (insect names) which indicate the name of the species and their genus. The study shows that these inclusions are not uncommon in fiction, in particular in adventure, science fiction and autobiographical prose. The analyzed material shows that Latin names do not always emphasize the scientific nature of the text, but can also impart grotesqueness and irony to it. In addition, it is noted that this technique is more typical of the prose of the 19th and 20th centuries, rather than of contemporary literature.

The article discusses emergence and development of words whose roots have been borrowed from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and have undergone further derivation in Russian. The author argues that this is an intermediary case between loanwords and foreign words that have not yet fully assimilated in the recipient language. The article provides for the semantic classification of East Asian loan roots, loanword classification into parts of speech among which are not only nouns but also many adjectives and even some verbs and adverbs. Semantic development of several derivatives is dwelt on. Characteristics and roles of affixes in East Asian loanwords are discussed. Variant forms of some derivatives are also a focus of this study, as well as the reasons for variability. In conclusion, the author draws attention to the mediating role of global English that brings in new concepts to other languages and cultures. These concepts, when verbalized, get local forms thanks to the derivational means of the recipient language.