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The literature review presents the world and russian experience in the surgical treatment of patients with hepatic echinococcosis over the last two decades. The most important aspects of the epidemiology and biology of echinococcus for the surgeon have been considered. Special attention is paid to the modern diagnosis of the disease, to the choice of volume and method of surgical treatment, according to WHO classification. The approaches to minimally invasive, laparoscopic and robotic operations of liver echinococcosis had been reviewed.