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First, the author defines spaces of finite-order distributions and describes their properties which are conventional. The main results of the article are connected with the degenerate operator-differential equations \[ Bu^{(n)}(t)-Au(t)=f(t), \tag{1} \] with \(B\) and \(L\) linear operators in a Banach space. It is assumed that the domain \(D(B)\) of \(B\) is included into \(D(A)\), \(B\) is a Fredholm operator, and the root subspace of the linear pencil \(B -\lambda A\) corresponding to \(\lambda=0\) is finite-dimensional. It is shown that the operator \(B\frac{d^n}{dt^{n}}-A\) has a fundamental solution which is a finite-order distribution. As a result, the existence of generalized solutions to the Cauchy problem for (1) is established. Similar results are obtained for some other equations close to (1). Note that equations (1) are of Sobolev type under the above conditions.