Omsk: Omsk branch of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, 2010. — 119 s. The brochure is devoted to the image of the cat in the culture of the peoples of the world . The main subject of study is the peculiarities of the perception of cats in different cultures throughout the history of mankind. The novelty lies in the fact that this is one of the first attempts to combine and systematize the material devoted to the relationship of man to the cat, to show the perception of the cat by various peoples of the world from different sides. Also, in reverse, stories are introduced (in which the cat /cat is indirectly mentioned), recorded by the ethnographic expeditions of Omsk State University, mainly among Russian Siberians .. In the course of the work, the causes of the negative attitude of people to the black cat . were identified. The brochure analyzes a significant amount of sources of iteration, which makes the work a kind of set of information about the cat in the culture of the peoples of the world. Brochure popularizes the ideas of little-known public reading science ethnozoology . Can be used in the educational process.