Elastic material with cylindrical orthotropic anisotropy was analyzed. A general inequality for the Poisson's ratios of the cylindrical orthotropic materials was derived. It was shown that in this case, Poisson's ratios can take on any values that satisfy this inequality.Poisson's ratios (PR) of chemical fibres were of purely theoretical value for a long time and were measured by the relative transverse and longitudinal changes in the size of the fibre in the region of large deformations [1]. This was primarily due to the small transverse dimensions of the fibres. Both the methods and the instrumental base were far from perfect. The measurements of these ratios had no significant practical value, since PR did not markedly affect the properties of the overwhelming majority of textile articles. For this reason, almost no attention was focused on textile materials science in the literature until recently. Whenever this topic was touched upon, the information was either relatively vague or inaccurate. The authors of [1] state: "For isotropic bodies, the theory of elasticity shows that the values of ν should be within the limits of 0-0.5," which contradicts current theoretical and experimental concepts.With the development of production of fibre-reinforced composites, the question of the values of the PR of fibres became more pressing, since these ratios began to be used in calculations of the mechanical properties of composites and structures made from them. More refined methods of measuring them were also demanded. However, it was necessary to develop more scientifically substantiated methods [2]. for this reason, the question of the theoretical limits of initially isotropic materials and fibres made from them and when highly oriented fibres -and anisotropic fibres -appeared, matured.New interest in examining the PR was recently stimulated by studying nanotubules (hollow nanorods) and nanowhiskers (continuous nanorods) greater than several nanometers in size which contain thousands of atoms. Due to this, it has become possible to satisfactorily describe their mechanical properties with methods of the mechanics of continuous media, the classic theory of elasticity in particular. The thin rod model from the linear theory of elasticity is used for analyzing nanowhiskers and nanotubules made from different materials.With respect to their structure, laminar nanotubules can be crystalline rods of nanometer section formed by rolling nanosheets into cylinders [3]. A diagram of one type of such nanotubules is shown in Fig. 1. A model of a cylindrically anisotropic rod is used to describe the mechanical behavior of such cylindrically twisted sheets within the framework of the mechanics of continuous media.Moscow State Textile University.