There are considered the word-formative families with the root evening- in the Don dialects and literature language. There are compared the word-formative models and semantics of language units.

There is considered the work of linguists of Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University (SSPI, VSPI, VSPU) on research of the dialects of the Volgograd region starting from the first years of the higher school work till the modern times. There are sorted out the main directions of dialect research.