Artionyms as a special foundation of cultural information of a language society often include some particular toponym as a component. The popularity of this or that toponym as a component of artionymic construction makes it possible to note the significance of a particular geographical object for cultural resources. Toponyms contain valuable ethnolinguistic and historic information.

As the result of comparison of German and Russian artionyms, there are revealed their peculiarities; it gives the opportunity to structure the onomastic spaces of the investigated languages that reflect the national cultural peculiarities.