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Аннотация:This paper reviews and analyses various observational data about the local interstellar medium (LISM) - a volume with a radius of about 200 pc near the Sun. There are collected radio, IR, optical, UV, and X-ray observations of the ISM and data on the Sco-Cen association. All available information confirms Weaver’s (1979) conclusions that the Sun is located near an edge of a giant cavern with a radius of about 180 pc and the cavern center coincides with the Sco-Cen associated center. Several arguments are given to show that the bright spots of soft X-rays (130 - 284 eV) near the galactic poles are produced by an interaction of stellar winds with outer edge of the local cloud near the ends of ‘the patch of polarization’. Lyman continuum radiation from Sco-Cen stars was shown to be probably the main source of ionization of extended H II regions of low density in the LISM.