To the question of relationship between language and culture on the material of russian and uzbek languages

In this article, the author examines the relationship between language and culture, relying on the issues of intercultural communication, while comparing some of the linguistic features of the Russian and Uzbek languages. The subject of study here becomes words that are nationally significant (for example, birch for Russians, laylak (“stork”) for Uzbeks) or non-existent, fictional objects and characters (mythological, fabulous: Baba Yaga, mermaids, goblin - among Russians, peri, deyva, jinn - among the Uzbeks). The merit belongs to W. von Humboldt, in whose works a deep and holistic understanding of language and linguistic pictures of the world is presented.