Early lexicographic monuments as sources of ethno-cultural lexics of the Kalmyk language

The article is devoted to the description of the early lexicographic monuments of the Kalmyk language as sources of ethnolinguistic information, as a means of understanding the specifics of the cultural space of the Kalmyk ethnic group in order to preserve the written heritage. During the analysis, the “early” bilingual dictionaries compiled in the 17th - 20th centuries were used as an empirical base: Russian-Kalmyk dictionary of an anonymous author (18th century); A brief Russian-Kalmyk word-varic of P. Smirnov (1857), Kalmyk-Russian dictionary of M. Lvovsky (1893). Each of the dictionaries represents a broad terminology of the spiritual and material culture of the people, reflects the degree to which lexical units are included in the living spoken language of the Kalmyk ethnic group and its sub-ethnic groups at a certain time interval, and also contain representative information from the point of view of dialectological and territorial features.