There is considered the ethnic cultural semantics of the peripheral ranks of proper names in textbooks of Russian as a foreign language. There are analyzed the contents of learning texts and commentaries from the point of view of revealing the linguocultural potential of the given group of names. There is given the example of lexicographic description of poreyonym in linguistic culturology.

There is considered the linguistic and cultural potential of anthroponomy contents in the textbooks of Russian as a foreign language: revealed the ethnocultural content of precedent and unprecedent names, shown the potential of their linguistic and culturological representation in dictionaries for foreign addressees.