A COMMEN T ON SOME TOPONYMS OF VELI KY NOVGOROD AREA The aim of this article is to confront etymologies of some toponyms of Veliky Novgorod area which have been proposed by V. L. Vasil’ev in his book “Slavânskie toponimičeskie drevnosti Novgorodskoj zemli” with contemporary achievements in the field of Slavic linguistics. The author of this paper reanalyses proper nouns with Proto-Slavic stems *klěšč-, *vьŕav-, *kamen- and others. A polemic against geographical distribution of names of Baltic origin on Russian territory is an important part of this article.