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The book contains a survey of Hamiltonian mechanics and its connections with the theory of Lie algebras and integrability of dynamical systems. The contents of the book are as follows: 1. Poisson brackets and Hamiltonian formalism; 2. Poisson brackets in rigid body dynamics; 3. Hamiltonian formalism in celestial mechanics; 4. Hamiltonian dynamics of vortex structures; 5. Many-particle systems. In eight appendices the authors describe some applications of Hamiltonian formalism to nonholonomic systems, to singular orbits of co-adjoint representations of group \(\mathrm{SO}(n)\) and \(E(n)\), to nonintegrability of Dyson system, to three-body problem etc. Chapter 1 is devoted to a general description of Hamiltonian formalism and to the integrability problems for Hamiltonian systems and for their reductions. Chapter 2 contains some applications of Kovalevskaya-Lyapunov method to the integrability analysis of the motion of a rigid body including the case of Dirac mechanics. The authors consider geodesic flows on spheres \(S^2\) and \(S^3\), and give a multidimensional generalization of the analysis of gyroscope motion. In chapter 3, the dynamics is studied in three-dimensional spaces of constant curvature. In particular, the authors consider non-Euclidean versions of Kepler problem and restricted three-body problem. A list of all known integrable cases in the spaces of constant curvature related to celestial mechanics is given. Chapter 4 describes the dynamics of vortex systems on plane, sphere, and inside a circular domain. The main attention is focused on the motion of three-vortex and \(N\)-vortex systems. The authors also present some applications to the analysis of Lotka-Volterra system. The final chapter 5 contains an analysis of Toda lattices, of their integrability, and describes the corresponding Lax representation.