Precedent surnames in the ethnocultural cognition of Krasnoyarsk citizens

The article concentrates on the description of the associative experiment’s results. The surnames of famous Russian people of literature and art such as Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky were used as a stimuli. The analysis allowed determining that the majority of the reactions characterize the references on their professional activity. Emotional estimates are quite rare.