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Let \(Z\to M\to B\) be a fiber bundle with closed fibers and \(F\) a flat complex vector bundle over \(M\). Choose a horizontal distribution for \(M\) and metrics on \(Z\) and \(F\). Then higher analytic torsion of \(M\) is defined which is an element in \(\Omega^{\text{even}}(B)\), the space of even-dimensional forms on \(B\). Its zero degree part is the Ray-Singer torsion of the fiber \(Z\) with coefficients in the restriction of \(F\) to the fiber. Let \(e(TZ)\in H^{\text{dim}(Z)}(M;\mathbb{R})\) be the Euler class of the vertical tangent bundle and let \(H(Z;F|_ Z)\) be the \(\mathbb{Z}\)- graded flat complex vector bundle over \(B\) given by the corresponding cohomology groups of the fibers over the points of \(B\). Then for any odd integer \(k\) the following analogue of a Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck theorem holds: \[ \int_ Ze(TZ)\cdot c_ k(F)=c_ k\bigl(H(Z,F|_ Z)\bigr)\in H^ k(B;\mathbb{R}). \] A differential version of this formula is also proven.