The review is devoted to the monograph by Professor P. U. Bakirov of Termez State University “Turkic names of persons in the Russian language”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the university where the author works. The researcher focuses on the problem of mastering linguistic borrowings and the specific features of their functioning in the recipient language. The object of study is the Turkic vocabulary, which has a long history of being assimilated by the Russian language.