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The paper concentrates on finding attainable sets and the controllability sets for affine controlled dynamical systems \[ \dot x=A(x,t) +B(x,t)u, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^n,\;u\in \mathbb{R}^1, \] with \(C^\infty\)-smooth vector functions \(A,B: \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^1\to \mathbb{R}^n\). An admissible control \(u(t)\) is defined as a piecewise continuous function ensuring the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the related Cauchy problem for this system. To determine the attainable set in question the author suggests an effective method based on the construction of an equivalent control system with the so-called canonical form. The efficiency of this method is illustrated by examples of a two-dimensional nonlinear controlled system and of three-dimensional systems of Rössler and Lorenz type, respectively. Sufficient conditions for controllability of a system are given in the case where the attainable set coincides with the entire state space.