“…The landmarks and tokens of the nomads' living environment include natural sites -mountains, groves, prominent trees. There is no rigid boundary between a nomad and a surrounding environment, the ethnos and nature relationship can be found not 'in just a cultural adaptation to the habitat, but also in value-based orientations related to its protection' [8,[104][105].The names of plants, which are considered on the onomastic level, are most often found in Kazakh toponyms. From a cognitive point of view, phytotoponyms can't only be considered as related to animal husbandry, because land and water names and many other linguo-cultural concepts, notions, motivational foundations which are connected with plant are also considered.…”