Abstract
Proverbs, being an element of ethnoculture, reflect the mentality, basic values ofpeople, and their idea of the surrounding world. The author of the article accounts for the necessity to study money-related proverbs and notes that money is an unalienable part of the contemporary society, and consequently, it represents the material for psychological, sociocultural and linguistic research. Our aim is to conduct a comparative semanticanalysis of proverbs in English, Romanian and Russian. The material for the research was150 proverbs in the corresponding linguacultures. The author classifies proverbs by the semantic basis, identifies similarities and differences of English, Romanian and Russian proverbs.