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The article deals with the characteristics of Anglicisms functioning in modern Russian slang, with an emphasis on their word-forming features. The penetration of these lexical units into the Russian language provides a researcher with a linguistically interesting material as the English and Russian languages represent typologically different language systems. To begin with, the research focuses on the origin of the individual word bases and affixes from which the Anglicism instances are formed. At the same time word-formation means, methods and procedures for the formation of Anglicisms in the Russian slang are taken into account.