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The discovery of classical and quantum completely integrable systems led to an increase of interest in the theory of Abelian functions in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. In this paper the authors consider an arbitrary algebraic curve \(V\) of genus \(g\) and construct the field of meromorphic functions on its Jacobi variety \(\text{Jac}(V)\) in terms of Kleinian \(\rho\)-functions \[ \rho_{ij}(u) = - \frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial u_{i}\partial u_{j}}\ln \sigma (u), \qquad i, j = 1, 2,\dots , g, \] where the vector \(u \in \text{Jac}(V)\) and \(\sigma\) is the Kleinian \(\sigma\)-function. The effective construction of the \(\sigma\)-function plays the principal role in the authors' approach. It is defined on the universal space of Jacobians, which is the fibration with the base given by the moduli space \(M(V)\) of the curve \(V\) of dimension \(d \leq 3g - 3\) and a fibre generated by the Jacobi variety \(\text{Jac}(V).\) The Kleinian \(\sigma\) function represents a natural generalization of the Weierstrass elliptic function to the case of an arbitrary algebraic curve. The principal result of the paper is the explicit solution of the Jacobi inversion problem, which is an alternative to that given by M. Noether. The paper is completed by a short discussion on the application of the authors' approach to completely integrable equations and of further perspectives of development of the theory. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0943.00052].