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We report the results of our study of the interplay between star formation and ISM in nearby galaxies at the scales from the individual HII regions to the whole galaxy. Stellar feedback plays important role in the regulation of the ISM structure at the local and global scales. Gas distribution in the large number of nearby galaxies appears as complexes of supershells with a size up to 1-2 kpc. According to the modern understanding, these structures were formed by stellar winds and supernova explosions from multiple star formation events over the lifetime of the supershell. The expansion of these giant supershells may trigger the new bursts of star formation in their rims, which in turn will influence the “parent” superbubble. The multiwavelength study is necessary for understanding the nature and evolution of the observed structures. We observed several nearby galaxies with a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer in H-alpha line and also with a long-slit spectrograph at 6-m SAO RAS telescope; available archival data in HI 21cm, UV, optical and IR were used as well. We compared the properties of the gas, dust and young stellar population in star forming regions of the studied galaxies; revealed the signs of the triggering of star formation; discovered a lot of ionized superbubbles with a size from 50 pc to 1.5 kpc; investigated the evolution of the gas and dust structure and composition in the regions of ongoing star formation.