We present a comparative analysis of the national-cultural specificity and universal, international components in the phraseology of English, German, and Russian.

The problem of the study lies in the fact that the phraseological fund of any national language is an extensive resource, the study of which, on the one hand, allows us to come closer to understanding the studied linguoculture, to deciphering the cultural code of a nation, and on the other hand, is such a complex phenomenon that it requires a special research methodology, a comprehensive approach involving knowledge from other humanities fields: lexicology, grammar, stylistics, language history, regional studies, and even history, philosophy, and logic.

The aim of the study is to identify the national and international, universal and unique aspects of phraseological units as stable linguistic and cultural clichés (stereotypes) in the languages being compared, to establish similarities and/or differences in the interpretation of universal, common human stereotypes at the linguistic level in English, German, and Russian linguocultures.

The relevance of the study is determined by the need for further study of phraseological units from the perspective of linguoculturology, i.e., not only as phenomena of indirect nomination, but also as repositories of unique national and cultural information, as well as the need for a comparative analysis of national and international components in phraseological units with a stereotypical, template element of interpretation of human experience as a cluster of general cultural memory.

As a result of the work, the role of phraseological units as repositories of particularly important national and cultural information was determined, based on universal, immutable values and truths that are enshrined in so-called stereotypes (linguistic and mental). The study found that the phraseological fund of the languages under study is a complex, multi-component unity of indigenous and borrowed, national and international phraseological units.

The theoretical and practical significance of the study lies in the expansion and supplementation of interdisciplinary research in the field of language and culture on the characteristics of national and international components in the phraseology of the languages studied. The study made it possible to identify the main universal and unique stereotypical components characteristic of each national linguistic culture in terms of their quantitative expression in the languages and cultures under study.