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The book gives a brief biography of an outstanding Soviet carpologist Nikolai N. Kaden, it also contains a complete list of his publications and students' memories of him. The book provides data on carpological characters in the families Apiaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Rosacese, in the genera Lotus and Valeriana with emphasis on the phylogeny of these taxa and detailed descriptions of the fruit of Alchemilla and Scheuchzeria; characterizes peduncle anatomy in different species of Malus as an adaptation to fruit dispersal; provides description and identification keys for friuts of Russian species of the family Polygonaceae. The book intended for specialists in carpology and taxonomy, experts in the field of reproductive biology of angiosperms, post-graduate and under-graduate students specializing in botany, historians of science. Keywords: carpology, fruit, pericarpium, exocarpium, mesocarpium, endocarpium, seed, seed coat, testa, tegmen, gynoecium