 Aleksandr Matveyev is the author of several books including "Finno-Ugric borrowings in Russian dialect of the Northern Urals" (Sverdlovsk, 1959), "Methods of toponymic researches" (Sverdlovsk, 1986), "Substrate toponymics of Northern Russia" (vol.1, 2, Yekaterinburg, 2001), the fundamental "Onomatology" (Moscow, 2006) and many popular books about language for non-linguists.Prof.