For the first time in the Russian-language literature, the monograph summarizes all available information on 78 species of cestodes belonging to 27 genera from 8 families of 4 orders, whose exposure to humans is directly or indirectly related to nutrition. The most necessary information about the systematic position, morphology, biology, life cycle, host circle - intermediate, additional, final, geographical distribution of species - causative agents of human trematodoses, information on cases of human infection, pathogenesis, epidemiology and prevention of diseases caused by them are given.