Bunin's many observations about the original name system in the stories show the need for a purposeful and generalizing study of the name system in the writer's work not only from a linguistic point of view, but also in relation to entering deep layers. modeling the author's poetics, his historical, religious, literary-aesthetic and social-political views. As a result of the work, we came to the conclusion that the proper name in Bunin's prose, first of all, has the ability to attract and harmonize the formal and meaningful elements of the literary text within the text in a certain way, thereby creating new content. Bunin's work opens the way to the widest cultural field, saturates the author's text with intertexts, thereby creating new meanings.