The article is an exploration of the transformation concerned with the toponyms of Ferghana and Sughd. It is determined that the first and the second stages refer to the ancient period, the rest three stages passed in Middle Ages -in the period of Arabian invasion and up to consolidation of Turkic dynasties on the territory of Middle Asia. The inference has been formulated running to the effect that mistakes in toponyms are beset with rewriting of historic events, phenomena and names; therefore, geographical names are simplified or contracted. It is accounted for by the factor that in discourse not a characteristic of an object is required, but only its mentioning; in consequence of the matter, it is a key word being a common noun that is omitted, but it is restored easily in a corresponding context. More often it happens because the language on whose basis a researched toponym originated from remains unknown.
toponyms, transformation, Sughd, Ferghana, Greeks, Arabs, Tiurcs, topoformant, renaming
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