This article will present some of the initial positions of the related to the identification and analysis of socio-cultural gaps. The main gap is detected, first of all, in bilingual translation dictionaries. The lacunas that are formed during the transmission of the non-equivalent vocabulary of another language undoubtedly illustrate most vividly and vividly the idea of reflecting reality in the language, but their share in the lexical composition of any language is small, it is not large in the articles.