The article examines the concept of labor as one of the significant fragments of the Russian linguistic worldview represented in the proverbial fund. Based on Russian proverbs, the main semantic zones of the concept are analyzed: labor as a moral value, labor as a condition for prosperity and life success, skill and experience, the collective organization of work, and the opposition between labor and laziness. Special attention is paid to the fact that the Russian proverb not only records the practical experience of the people but also transmits an evaluative model of behavior in which a person’s attitude toward labor becomes an indicator of their moral character. As a result of the study, it is revealed that the concept of labor in Russian proverbs has a complex semantic structure and combines economic, ethical, social, and educational components.
Usmonova et al. (2026) studied this question.