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76 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 II. MIDDLE EAST, CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA БЛИЖНИЙ ВОСТОК, КАВКАЗ И ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ АЗИЯ Ş. H. Akalın (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey) On the Historical Language Contacts between the Russian and Turkish Languages Summary : Language contacts give interesting clues to the history of the relations between nations. Cultural interactions, political affairs, trade relations, etc., also affect the languages. Turks and Russians, two neighbours, had very strong interactions throughout history. As a result of this relationship, Turkish loan-words in Russian and Russian loan-words in Turkish are found. The last edition of the Turkish Dictionary which is published by Turkish Language Association (TDK) in 2011, includes forty Russian loan-words in Turkish. In the Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language , there are data showing the links of approximately 300 words in Russian with Turkish words. Some of these words can be traced back to the Middle Ages, others are relatively recent borrowings. In this paper, I want to discuss a Turkish loan-word, which is borrowed from Russian, harasho . In Russian this word means ‘good, well, OK’. But the latest edition of the Turkish Dictionary 1 also contains the following information about this word: ‘It’s a kind of wool weave’. This word for the first time was recorded in the seventh edition of the Turkish Dictionary, published in 1983. In the eighth and ninth editions of the dictionary in 1988 and 1998, it is also mentioned that the word was used in Russian with the meaning ‘good, well’. In the tenth edition in 2005 it is given with the same meaning, as borrowed from Russian. Today, many Turks do not know how harasho, a Russian word in the Turkish Dictionary, is used in Turkish. However, the study of history reveals how the loanwords entered the vocabulary of languages as 1 Akalın Ş. H., et al. Turkish Dictionary. Ankara: Turkish Language Society Publications, 2019. P. 1046.