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The book gives a systematic description of the structural properties of linear non-stationary systems: stability, controllability, observability. The first chapter presents the necessary information from the theory of ordinary differential equations. The properties of systems with constant coefficients are shortly described. The bases of the theory of reducible (in the sense of Ljapunov) linear homogeneous non-stationary systems are given, and some important classes of linear non-stationary systems integrable in explicit form are described. The second chapter deals with some questions devoted to the investigation of the stability of linear non-stationary systems. The basic concepts of the theory of stability are introduced. General theorems for stability of linear systems are presented. Effective criteria for stability of systems with constant and quasi-constant matrices are given. Sufficient conditions for stability of non-stationary systems of general form are shown. Stability of reducible systems and systems of special form is considered. In the third chapter methods of analysis and synthesis for linear non- stationary systems of control and estimation are considered. The concepts for controllability and observability of linear systems of general form and of stationary systems are introduced and are extended to reducible systems. Algorithms for estimation and control are presented. In the last fourth chapter some problems in dynamics of control and estimation are considered. They demonstrate the effectiveness in the applications of the theory developed in chapters 1-3. In the book, besides well known results, some new original results obtained by the authors are included. In particular, the theory of linear non-stationary reducible systems of control and estimation is presented.