We obtain an exact, closed, self-consistent system of equations for describing nanotubes that takes electron and oscillation subsystems in the collective variables into account. Collective excitations in nanotubes are described by the quantum numbers n, m, and k, where n -1 is the number of radial modes, m is the number of azimuthal modes, and k -1 is the number of longitudinal modes of the wave function. The results obtained approximate the experimental data better than those obtained by the method of linear combinations of atomic orbitals.