Composing Local Text Dictionaries of the Cities of the Post-Soviet Cultural Space

The article attempts to comprehend the tradition of anthropological studying of the local text and composing local text dictionaries of the cities of the post-Soviet cultural space. The tradition itself developed at the turn of the 20th and 21th centuries. This young research tradition is analysed on the basis of materials of the two local text dictionaries: the dictionary of Omsk, a Russian regional centre, and the dictionary of provincial Ukrainian town Mogilev-Podolsky. A project of the local text dictionary of Narva, an Estonian city located on the border between Russia and the European Union, is presented.