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By the classical limit of quantum theory one usually mean the limit case as \(\hbar\to 0\), where \(\hbar\) is the Planck's constant as usual. The existence of this limit was considered by many physicists in the early days of quantum mechanics as a necessary characteristics of the theory. There have been other alternative formulations of this limit procedure as the transition to large quantum numbers and exclusion rules as possible choice instead of \(\hbar\to 0\). In this paper the author porposes another way of calculating the semi-classical limit. For that two semigroups of unitary operators \(U(r,s)\) and \(V(r,s)\), \(r,s>0\), are constructed. In a special case the product \(U(r,s)Q(r,s)\) represents the semigroup \(\exp(- iH_s^0 r)\) generated by a selfadjoint extension of the Laplace operator, but the general framework is without any reference to physical measurements and theory. Then the limit \(s\to\infty\), but \(\hbar\) bounded, is considered. [For the entire collection see Zbl 0712.00014.]