The article deals with the issue of precedential names in the “picture of the world” of students of Slavic studies based on materials collected as a result of the use of the method of the linguistic and cultural map of the Slavic world and the experiment of free association. The analysis of materials gives the opportunity to organize the process of education in Slavic studies at university level in such a way as to prepare the graduates for fruitful professional work in the field of inter-Slavic communication.