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The paper is devoted to studying the existence of limit cycles of the nonlinear autonomous system of differential equations \(dx/dt =f(x)\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^N\), where the vector function \(f(x)\) is differentiable and the matrix \(f'(x)\) satisfies the local Lipschitz condition. The main difficulty in determining a limit cycle of this system consists in the uncertainty of its period. The problem of finding the limit cycles is reduced to solving the operator equation \[ A(x)\equiv x(t)-x(1)- \bigl\langle a,x(0) \bigr\rangle \int^x_0 f\bigl(x(s) \bigr)ds=0 \] in the space \(C\) of continuous vector functions \(x(t)\) on \([0,1]\) with the usual norm \(|x|= \max_{0 \leq t\leq 1} |x(t)|\), where \(a\in\mathbb{R}^N\) is a chosen vector, \(\langle\cdot, \cdot \rangle\) is the inner product in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), the operator \(A:C\to C\) is Fréchet continuously differentiable, and its derivative \(A'(x)\) satisfies the Lipschitz condition on any ball of the space \(C\). On the basis of Schauder's principle for this operator equation the authors find sufficient conditions for the existence of a limit cycle in question.