Rivers and words, or criticism of critical criticism

The article is a response to the criticism of the author's work in the article by Yu. A. Shkuratok and contains both an analysis of her specific comments on the hydronyms Chesnokovka, Serebryanka and toponymic series in ukht-, and an analysis of fundamental methodological differences in the work with toponyms of linguists, geographers and historians. It is emphasized that for historians, the etiology (origin of the phenomenon) is much more important than the etymology (origin of the word).