Finno-Ugric world through the prism of the Ural toponymy

The author raises the question of the Ural substratum in Ural-Volga region toponymy, linking it with complex and diverse ethnogenesis challenges of Ural race people. It concludes on the lack of toponymic system grounds consideration of Ural-Volga region as a result of creativity of only the people who are now living there: in this case the chronological sections and facts impacting on the formation of its substratum, superstratym and other events are ignored.