Abstract. The work presents results of investigation of nucleation of CuCl nanocrystals in glass by method of exiton-thermal analysis (ETA) which is based on measuring the optical absorbance of CuCl phase in sample under heating up to the melting temperature of CuCl nanocrystals. The melting temperature of nanoparticle depends on its radius. Therefore analysis of curve of melting CuCl phase allows to determine distribution curve of nanoparticles on their radii. By the method of ETA the features of variation of CuCl nanoparticles distributions in glass when changing regime of sample annealing (nonisothermal nucleation) were studied. For example, by reducing the heating rate of the sample the concentration of particles of CuCl phase increases considerably while reducing average radius.Method of exiton-thermal analysis (ETA) of melting-crystallization of CuCl nanoparticles in glass is based on application of the well known Urbach's rule [1]. The rule reads: the long-wavelength absorption edge of crystals at different temperatures intersects in one "node point". The Urbach's rule is true for most of transparent media [2].If you heat the sample and transmit light with energy of "node point" photon through the sample of glass with CuCl nanocrystals (NC), then absorbance NC CuCl does not change until beginning NC melting. Melting CuCl NC leads to transition of the nanoparticles in the amorphous state and the exciton states, which ensure absorption in the "nodal point", disappear. But zone-zone absorption of CuCl nanomelt remains. This absorption is almost two times less than nanocrystals one. The temperature of melting CuCl NC decreases with decreasing particles radius. Since NC distribution of radius takes a place in the glass, first the smallest CuCl particles of the distribution are melted, and then with increasing temperature the nanocrystals of bigger radii are melted. Thus, there is an optical scanning melting distribution of CuCl NC [3].As a result, we have experimental curve of melting CuCl nanoparticles -dependence of optical absorption coefficient of the sample on temperature K0(T). Derivation K0(T)/dT is intensity of melting CuCl phase in dependence on sample temperature at linearly increasing temperature. Since melting NC of determined radius takes place at corresponding temperature, it is possible to obtain from the function K0(T)/dT the distribution of CuCl phase in sample on radii -the curve fV(r)=dV/dR.