The paper is about the modern nicknames of the residents of Perm Land of the 20th-early 21st centuries. Russian as well as Komi-Permyak and Tatar anthroponomy which is motivated by the lexemes of thematic group “Animals” is analyzed. The lexicalsemantic groups which are topical for Perm nicknames are determined (“Names of the animals and their kinds”, “Names of the regions of the animals”, “Names of the young animals”, “Nicknames of the animals”, “Names and nicknames of the animals which are the personages of the folklore / author’s works”, “Names of the groups of the animals”, “Onomatopoeia (imitations of the sounds producing by the animals”, “Words to beckon the animals”). Types and kinds of the nicknames are identified: 1) from the point of view of spontaneity / consciousness of appearance: natural and artificial nominations which are proposed to distinguish from the standpoint of language (in the linguistic opposition “norm” / “usage”) and from the standpoint of onomastics (in the extra-linguistic opposition “own” / “alien”); 2) by the subject of the nomination: “auto-nicknames” and “allo-nicknames”; 3) by the Extension: individual (family; social-group, at-school, youth, teacher’s, nicknames of adults) and collective (family, family-tribal, “family-group”; socialgroup; territorial). The factors which determine language tools of derivation of the nicknames of this group are revealed: language which is a source of the nomination, motivation of nomination (structural, phonetic, lexical, semantic, multiple), evaluation, social conditions, territorial conditions, temporal conditions. Structurally, the central (not formally distorted), transitional (derivative) and peripheral (occasional, barbarism) lexemes of this group are identified. Multiplicity of characteristics and properties of the animals which motivate the nicknames is noted. The perspectives of research of the modern Perm nicknames in lingualcultural and cognitive aspects are defined.