Features of dialects of the Russian North in Kostroma dialects with transitivity being outlined (in terms of toponymy of the town of Nerekhta)

The process of transition of dialects of the Russian North to ones of Central
Russia is examined in terms of the dialects of Nerekhta district of Kostroma
Oblast. Currently, Nerekhta dialects reflect features, on the one hand, of the
dialects of Vologda-Vyatka group, while on the other hand, of Vladimir-
Povolzhye group and do combine Northern Russian and Central Russian
features.
Arguments for confirming interchangeability of the notions “North Russian
lexis type” and “Common Russian lexis type”; as well as for confirming
the theory, that the lexis type of the dialects under consideration once
became a thing of the Russian literary language, are advanced in the article.
What became one of the sources of establishment of Nerekhta zone lingual
geographic status, was Nerekhta urban toponymicon which had emerged for
centuries on the basis of landscape names as well as on the basis of nearby
rural settlements’ micro-toponymy.