Reconstruction of the language situation of the middle of the XXth century in the Tver dialect region

This article describes the experience of reconstruction of the language situation in the Tver dialect region on the basis of the data collected and analyzed by researchers in the 50-s - 60-th years of the 20-th century, in comparison with the data obtained by the author as a result of the analysis of peculiarities of verbal memory of the urban public speech (material of the first half of the 21st century).