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This review is devoted to studies of the Gould belt and the Local system. Since the Gould belt is the giant stellar-gas complex closest to the sun, its stellar component is characterized, along with the stellar associations and diffuse clusters, cold atomic and molecular gas, high-temperature coronal gas, and dust contained in it. Questions relating to the kinematic features of the Gould belt are discussed and the most interesting scenarios for its origin and evolution are examined.

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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 625-650 (November 2014).

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Bobylev, V.V. The Gould Belt. Astrophysics 57, 583–604 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-014-9360-7

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