The article examines the reference of the official text on the example of the decrees of the mayor of Moscow for the period March–June 2020. The logical-semantic and pragmatic aspects of reference are considered. Specific reference noun phrases in the texts name the participants who organize and carry responsibility for the assistance to the population. Noun phrases used to name the loci of infection are also referencespecific. Nominal groups that name the addressee of help do not refer to any specific objects of extra-linguistic reality. The text analysis carried out with the Istio.com program allows one to determine the frequency of vocabulary, which shows the degree of importance of the participant of the situation for the speaker. Thus, in the text compiled from the decrees of the mayor of Moscow for the period from March to June 2020, the focus of the addressee’s attention is the noun citizen, which indicates the aim of the text and the importance of the participants of the situation for the sender.