Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary systems embedded in systems of wave equations are obtained. The group properties of some of the obtained systems are studied. Shear wave in a threedimensional elastic medium are described using Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary systems.Key words: Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary systems, equivalence, systems of wave equations, conformal invariance, shear waves in a three-dimensional elastic medium.Introduction. Using quaternions, Gordienko [1, 2] obtained a Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric system which depends on eight arbitrary real constants and is satisfied by first-order derivatives with respect to all independent variables of the solution of the three-dimensional wave equation.In the present work, Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary systems for which each of their solution is a solution of wave equations with two and three space variables are found to equivalence transformations. It is shown that such t-hyperbolic Friedrichs symmetric evolutionary systems exist only if the number of equations in the system of wave equations is even. All such Friedrichs systems are listed for systems of any number of wave equations with two space variables and for systems of two, four or six equations wave equations with three space variables. For systems of eight or more equations wave equations with three space variables, the existence of such Friedrichs systems is established and some of them are given. For the system from [1 2], conditions are obtained under which it has the above-mentioned property. The obtained Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary systems are used to study shear waves in a three-dimensional elastic medium. In particular, it is shown that a real Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary system embedded in a system of four wave equations with three space variables is equivalent to the system of wave equations for scalar potentials describing shear waves. The basic Lie groups of transformations are found which are admitted by the Friedrichs t-hyperbolic symmetric evolutionary system used to describe shear waves. Some partially invariant solutions are obtained in which the presence of functional arbitrariness makes them applicable to the solution of boundary-value problems of propagation of elastic shear waves.