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This nice survey article is devoted to two important problems in knot theory: equivalence relations on spatial graphs and knots in spatial graphs. The essential progress in these subjects was given by the author. The first part of the article is devoted to relations between ambient isotopy, cobordism, isotopy, I-equivalence, edge-homotopy, vertex-homotopy and homology on the set of all embeddings of a finite graph into the Euclidean 3-space. The presented results are mostly from the author's papers [Topology 33, No. 3, 509-523 (1994; Zbl 0823.57006) and Topology Appl. 65, No. 3, 205-228 (1995; Zbl 0843.57012)]. In the second part, the author discusses the dependence and the independence of the knot type of the subgraph in a spatial graph. This is an exposition of the author's joint work with T. Motohashi, Y. Ohyama and A. Yasuhara on the Vassiliev type invariant for subgraphs in a spatial graph and adaptable graphs. Details will appear elsewhere. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0901.00045].