With a foreword to the acad. B. B. Kadomtseva . M. , Atomizdat, 1976. —112 s. , 26 il. At first, the plasma interested physicists as a kind of conductor of electric current, as well as a source of light. Now it is already considered as a natural state of matter heated to a very high temperature, and as a dynamic system - an object of application of electromagnetic forces. New methods of approach to the study of plasma behavior are organically associated with great technical problems, for which plasma physics serves as a scientific foundation. The book will be read with interest not only by physicists, but also by everyone who is interested in modern physics. It can be recommended as a kind of compact lecture course for students of physical and physical-technical faculties of universities .