Abstract
This article examines the national and cultural markedness of Russian phraseological units and the specific features of their interlingual transfer into Uzbek. Phraseological units are analysed as fixed linguistic expressions whose semantics embody elements of national experience, cultural perceptions, historical realities, and the value systems of language communities. Particular attention is paid to the preservation of the figurative, evaluative, and cultural components of phraseological units in translation. Drawing on a contrastive analysis, the study identifies the principal strategies for transferring Russian phraseological units into Uzbek: phraseological equivalence, image substitution, calquing, descriptive translation, and contextual compensation. The findings indicate that the choice of translation strategy depends on the degree of national and cultural markedness of the source-language unit and the availability of functionally equivalent resources in the target language.