Review of activity of the II International scientific conference "Ethnolinguistics. Onomastika. Etymology", passed on September 7-11, 2012 in vicinities of Yekaterinburg (a camp site of "Chusovaya"). Organizers the chair of Russian and general linguistics of the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg), Russian Institute of V. V. Vinogradov as the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) with the assistance of the commissions on ethnolinguistics and etymology acted at the International committee of Slavists (chairmen of the commissions, E. Bartminsky (Poland) and A. Shivits-Dular (Slovenia).