The article deals with green spaces, which are used for landscaping and improvement of the city in the Far North. The research is based on Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 space imagery materials, as well as on Google Earth imagery materials. To determine the exact territory of the city park, the city land cadaster objects were decoded. The space images have been used to detect objects of the city park and types of greenery located within the park territory using interpretation features. Space images of Landsat have been processed in IDRISI Selva software to detect tree species and compare changes that occurred in 2000, 2010 and 2020. In the course of the work the images of the area were taken to assess the interpretation accuracy. IDRISI Selva software also processed images showing the NDVI vegetation index to identify green areas in the Yakutsk city park.

The purpose of the work is to identify the role and characteristics of the Far North for the sustainable development of the country. The heterogeneity of development and territorial organization of the economy, specific features of nature and ambiguous long-term trends in the development of northern territories require a deep analysis of the internal reasons for their development. Materials and methods. The study of the significance, characteristics, trends and problems of economic development in the Far North was carried out at the super-regional level (as a whole), at the regional level (those regions that fully belong to it) in comparison with the average indicators for the country and the federal districts of the country. To fulfill the purpose of the study - to assess the role of the Far North for the sustainable development of the country, literary, comparative, analytical, system-structural, statistical and other research methods were applied. We used statistical information from the official publications of the Federal State Statistics Service - "Regions of Russia" for 2002-2019. To perform calculations, statistical data were summarized, systematized and structured. Results. In general, the Far North has huge reserves of minerals. The largest explored reserves of natural gas and oil are especially important and intensively used. Therefore, in the sectoral structure of industrial production, there is a predominance of extractive industries, which distinguishes this territory from the Russian Federation as a whole. The Far North, despite the difficult natural and transport-geographic conditions, is a donor of the Russian economy. Its role is great in the fishing industry in the fuel and energy complex, metallurgy, timber and pulp and paper industries. This is where the flows of fuel and raw materials begin, which produce at least twice the GRP than at the present time in the very north of the country. Based on our work, it can be concluded that for the sustainable development of the country in the Far North, it is necessary for the federal center to carry out a special regional policy combining, on the one hand, investment, financial, tax aspects and measures for the accelerated development of the northern territories to increase the socio-economic level and unity of the entire space of the country, and on the other hand, it is necessary to provide greater independence to the subjects of the Federation of the Far North in solving all issues of life and activities of the population, increasing its well-being based on the maximum use of local resources.

Comparative studies as one of the popular areas of modern linguistics are recognized by linguists as a promising phenomenon of the science of language. Comparative studies of languages of various types are currently very relevant. This is especially true of the languages of the early-written indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of Russia, who have lived for many centuries in close contact with the Russian ethnos. As you know, the Russian (Slavic) language typologically belongs to the group of inflectional languages, and the Yakut (Sakha) and Dolgan (Turkic) languages belong to the classification of agglutinative languages. Thus, in phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic terms, they differ significantly from each other. Long-term ethnocultural ties of Russians, Yakuts and Dolgans were reflected primarily in the vocabulary of the languages of these ethnic groups. We chose the vocabulary of the Russian (East Slavic) and northern Turkic languages as the object of our research. The subject of the research in this article is the names of months in Russian, Yakut and Dolgan languages. Purpose of the work: semantic analysis of twelve months of the year in the above languages. The objectives of the article logically follow from the purpose of the research: 1) describe the names of the months; 2) trace the etymology of the names of the months from a historical and cultural point of view; 3) to conduct a comparative analysis of lexical units in synchronic and diachronic aspects, taking into account their specificity. Our research was carried out in line with the ethnolinguistic tradition laid down in Slavic and Balkan studies by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.I. Tolstoy. Ethnolinguistics is a direction of linguistics that orientates the researcher to the study of the connection between language and spiritual culture, language and folk mentality, language and folk knowledge, as well as different types of their correspondence. She studies the problem in the ratio of language: ethnos, while sociolinguistics studies it in the ratio of language: society. In ethnolinguistics, a special place (along with art, ritual practice) is occupied by folk knowledge: metrology, meteorology, medicine, traditional food and cuisine, folk architecture, calendar... Traditional time reckoning among the Slavic and Turkic peoples of the planet has its own specific features, dictated primarily by their environment habitat and economic and cultural type of activity. For the Slavs, this is agriculture, for the northern peoples, reindeer husbandry, hunting, fishing, gathering. Therefore, the calendar cycle and the names of the months of these peoples were associated with the annual cycle of management and climatic, natural features of the zone of their residence. This article is the first experience of describing, comparing and analyzing the names of months in Russian, Yakut and Dolgan languages. In the future, these studies will be continued.

The purpose of this study is to explore the barriers and opportunities faced by a Russian origin student experienced while living in Brazil and studying in a Brazilian Federal University’s master’s program. Using a narrative inquiry approach, a story with a view to intercultural communication and adaptation to the Brazilian culture is focused. The analysis identifies the ways by which cultural shocks were dealt with. The data show evidences of cross-cultural adaptation and how this process is facilitated by fluency in Portuguese. The results of the research may be useful both for international students who go through the process of adaptation in a new culture and for universities’ departments which work with international students.