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The book under review is a textbook in differential geometry and topology for students majoring in mathematics. The author combines visualizable objects with the analytic apparatus, solves many model problems, and provides many problems and exercises for independent study. He also supplies historical notes. In Chapters 1 and 2 the author develops the theory of curves and surfaces in Euclidean space. Many definitions are based on linear algebra constructions. The author pays great attention to the orientation of a plane, space, curve, and surface and the relation of the orientation of a curve with the sign of its curvature. He gives a qualitative visualizable interpretation of new geometric notions. Chapter 3 contains the basics of tensor analysis and the theory of differentiable Riemannian manifolds. The exposition of Riemannian geometry is given up to the sectional curvature. In Chapters 4 and 5 the author presents the basics of set-theoretic and algebraic topology. In particular, he discusses the fundamental group, coverings, and homology groups.