Аннотация:The paper describes the scientific problems associated with the operation of underground gas storages (UGS), existing methods for modeling mechanical and filtration processes in UGS, the ways to improve these models: accounting the mutual influence of stresses and filtration, the effect of cyclical pressure change in a wide range at gas injection and extraction on strength of rocks. The results of an experimental determination of the dependence of the permeability of rocks on the stresses acting in them, of a theoretical study of the effect of filtration flow on the stress-strain state in the vicinity of the wells and the size of the plastic zone, an experimental study of the effect of cyclic loading on the strength of rocks are presented.