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The authoress of the present article touched upon the problems of diachronic description of lexical-semantic system of Russian from Common Slavonic’s up to the modern state on the basis of research of genetically close lexicon united in derivational, root and etymological families are considered. The authoress proved the opportunity and necessity of distinguishing of a new complex lexical unit – a genetic paradigm in the structure of which etymological family of words on the basis of a genetic generality and semantic relations their components are united.