The sufficient conditions for different types of stability of three classes of hybrid systems modeled by dynamic equations on a time scale, impulsive hereditary systems, and equations in the Banach space are discussed. Some general results are illustrated by examples and applications in mechanics and theory of neural networks Keywords: DE-model of hybrid system, hybrid impulsive hereditary systems, hybrid systems in metric spaces, matrix Lyapunov function method, stability, boundedness, periodicityIntroduction. The classical theory of stability of motion unites methods and approaches that allow analyzing an equilibrium state for stability in a mathematical model or a real process. Such models are, as a rule, systems of ordinary differential equations or partial differential equations. There are monographs and books [10, 13-15, 67, 77, 117] that discuss basic approaches to this problem.To describe modern engineering and process facilities and systems, use is made of mathematical models that differ from those mentioned above and require adequate methods of qualitative analysis. One of the first models of a hybrid system was Witsenhausen's model [115].In this model, the state of the system has continuous and discrete-time components. The continuous state of the system is described by a system of ordinary differential equations with the right-hand side depending on the discrete state. The discrete state changes once the continuous state has fallen within a certain domain in the state space.A mathematical model of a real system is hybrid when its behavior is described by equations of different types. Examples of such systems are -continuous systems with changing phase (bouncing ball, walking robot, growing and dividing cell); -continuous systems controlled by discrete automata (thermostat, discretely accelerated chemical process, autopilot); -coordinated processes (take-off and landing of aircraft at an airport terminal, highway traffic control). Moreover, the term "hybrid system" is used to describe the dynamics of objects containing neural networks, various fuzzy-logic devices, electric and mechanical components in complex systems, and in many other situations. An important example of hybrid systems is systems consisting of a digital control device and a continuous component describing the model of the process under consideration. Traditionally, an analysis of such systems involves the discretization of the mathematical model of the continuous component, resulting in a system of difference equations to be analyzed. Such an approach may not be applicable to the modern theories of robust control where both continuous and discrete components play an important role in their natural form.Hence, an important task at the current stage of development of this research area is to set up a theory of stability of hybrid systems.Here we will consider the following classes of hybrid systems: -systems on a time scale described by dynamic equations (DE-model) (not to be confused with dynamic systems in the sense of Nemytskii and St...