The textbook is an original publication and has no analogues among the literature on chemistry used in the educational process of technical universities and universities. In content and structure, the book is a combination of a textbook, a task book and a workshop and consists of three sections. The first is devoted to modern issues of classification, structure, production and purification of metals. The second section discusses the basic physical and chemical properties of metals. The third section contains material covering alloys and solutions in metal systems. strict form. Some topics in it are covered more deeply than in existing textbooks, and, most importantly, methodically more successful.