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Using the method of exterior forms and moving frames, the author develops the idea of duality and applies it to the study of projective connections, embedded manifolds, framed submanifolds, nonholonomic manifolds, and some different geometrical objects. It is proved that any nondegenerate normalization of a projectively connected space induces three more projective connections which are dual with respect to the corresponding involutive transformations of the forms of these connections. A similar result is also obtained for affinely connected spaces. Some properties of these connections are described. For the given flat net a dual net is built, for which the known results of classical net theory are generalized. The invariant dual theory of regular hyperband distributions is constructed. In particular, the fundamental geometrical objects of the third order are found; by means of them, some different invariant framings are found; the invariant projectively connected dual spaces are determined and the dual regular hyperband distribution is defined. The case of projective space is investigated separately. The geometry of a hyperband is investigated in detail. The obtained results are applied to the study of the geometry of submanifolds. It is proved, in particular, that the order of a full inner fundamental object of an \(m\)-dimensional surface of \(n\)-dimensional projective space is no more than 6. The properties of dual geometries are determined by different framings of regular hyperplane distributions of a projectively connected space (or projective space). The case of a hypersurfaces is investigated separately. The author obtained many results generalizing well-known theorems and constructions from classical differential geometry. All considerations are local, all theorems are supplied with detailed proofs. The thesis contains a complete bibliography.