Izlozheny svedeniya o lese kak istochnike vozobnovlyaemogo syr'ya, o morfologicheskom i khimicheskom stroenii drevesiny, tekhnologicheskikh i ekologicheskikh aspektakh eye ispol'zovaniya i pererabotki. Okharakterizovany osnovnye napravleniya khimicheskoy pererabotki glavnykh komponentov biomassy dereva: drevesiny, kory, drevesnoy zeleni i ekstraktivnykh veshchestv. Kratko rassmotreny tekhnologicheskie protsessy khimicheskoy pererabotki v tsellyulozno-bumazhnoy, gidroliznoy, mikrobiologicheskoy i lesokhimicheskoy otraslyakh promyshlennosti, assortiment, svoystva i oblasti primeneniya vyrabatyvaemoy produktsii. Privedeny voprosy dlya samokontrolya. Kniga adresovana v kachestve uchebnogo posobiya studentam mladshikh kursov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy, obuchayushchimsya po spetsial'nosti "Tekhnologiya khimicheskoy pererabotki drevesiny" i smezhnym spetsial'nostyam.