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The authors proved the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution of the initial boundary value problem and of a problem with interior obstacles for the elliptic-parabolic equations \[ u\geq \varphi,\quad L \geq f, \quad (u-\varphi)(Lu - f) = 0 \quad \text{in }Q_T \] \[ Lu : = \partial _t b(u) - \operatorname {div} \{ |\nabla u + k(b(u))\vec e |^ {m-2}(\nabla u + k(b(u))\} = f(x,t). \] Here \( m > 1\), \( b \) is a monotone nondecreasing function, the obstacle \(\varphi \) is a function defined on \( Q_T \), \( k \) is a function which is continuous on \( b(\mathbb R) \), and \( |\vec e |= 1\). Such equations arise in the theory of non-Newtonian filtrations and in mathematical glaciology.