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The fundamental solutions for a class of degenerate parabolic initial-boundary value problems are constructed. Let \((t,y,x)\) be a variable element of \(\mathbb{R}^{n+2}=\mathbb{R}_t\times \mathbb{R}_y\times \mathbb{R}^{n}\) and \(\sum_{i,j=1}^{n}a_{ij}\xi _i\xi _j\) be a positive definite quadratic form with constant coefficients. For the degenerate parabolic operator \[ L=\partial _t-\partial _y^2-y^2\sum_{i,j=1}^{n}a_{ij}\partial _{x_i} \partial _{x_j} \] the following initial-boundary value problem is considered \[ (P(U_0,F,H))\qquad \left\{\begin{aligned} & LU(t,y,x)=F(t,y,x)\quad (t,y,x)\in ]0,T[\times \mathbb{R}_y^{+} \times \mathbb{R}^n,\\ &U(t,0,x)=H(t,x)\quad (t,x)\in ]0,T[\times \mathbb{R}^n,\\ &U(0,y,x)=U_0(y,x)\quad (y,x)\in \mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n.\end{aligned}\right. \] The following result is proved. There is a function \(k(t,y,y'',\xi)\in C^{\infty} (\mathbb{R}_t^+\times \mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}_{y''}^+\times (\mathbb{R}^n-\{0\}))\) such that the associate operator \[ K:U_0\in\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n)\rightarrow (2\pi)^{-n} \int\limits_{0}^{+\infty}dy\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}_n}e^{ix\xi}k(t,y,y'',\xi) \mathcal{F}_{x\rightarrow\xi}U_0(y'',\xi)d\xi \] is linear and continuous from \(\mathcal{S} \left (\overline{\mathbb{R}}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n\right)\) to \(C^{\infty} \left (\overline{\mathbb{R}}^+_t,\mathcal{S}\left (\overline{\mathbb{R}}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n\right)\right)\), and the function \(KU_0\) is a solution of the problem \(P(U_0,0,0)\); moreover \(K\) can be extended as a linear and continuous operator from \(\mathcal{E}''(\mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n)\) to \(C^{\infty}\left (\overline{\mathbb{R}}_t^+, \mathcal{D}'' (\mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n)\right)\) in such a way that \(KU_0\) is a generalized solution of \(P(U_0,0,0)\), where \(U_0\in\mathcal{E}''(\mathbb{R}_y^+\times \mathbb{R}^n)\). Analogous results for the problems \(P(0,F,0)\) and \(P(0,0,H)\) are also proved.