The book of the candidate of agricultural sciences, honored worker of the hunting economy of Russia, hunting expert Sergei Nikolayevich Linintsev describes the distribution, ecology and biology of hunting and rare species of animals living in the territory of Central Siberia, gives indicators of their size and weight, characteristic characteristics of behavior. The book uses extensive scientific material on individual species, published in various publications, the author's own observations and research, who has worked in the hunting farm of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia for 45 years. Methods of hunting some species of animals are described and examples of individual hunts are given.