Abstract
Abstract. The article examines the features of the use of anthroponyms in the literary texts of Pavel Vasiliev, which perform an identifying and often artistic and stylistic functions. Anthroponyms are one of the most common groups in Vasiliev's onomasticon. Particular attention is paid to the use of two female names: Anastasia and Eugenia. The onim Anastasia is the most common female name in Vasiliev's poetry. There is a version that it was the girl’s name who was the first love of the poet. This name is given by a variety of characters in seven works by Vasiliev. It often takes the syntactic position of address, in which the emotional-subjective attitude towards the heroine is actualized. The second name, Eugenia Stanman, has a real prototype - a girl who studied with the poet in the same class in Pavlodar. The anthroponym is used as a symbol of childhood, youth ("Eugenia Stanman") and as a symbol of the construction of a new life ("Turksib"), thus performing an artistic and stylistic function in Vasiliev's poetic picture of the world.Key words: anthroponym, Pavel Vasiliev, artistic and stylistic function, onomasticon, prototype.