This discourse is intended for learners and professionals at various levels in the field of zooveterinary and nature it contains modern concepts for African swine fever as the most important agriculture and agroecology problems for today. The data on the etiology, spread of disease, susceptibility of domestic pigs and wild boars, sources and transmission pathways, pathogenesis, symptomatology, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and control of ASF were given. The epizootic situation of ASF in Russia was described briefly. Key points are illustrated with figures. The references to the main normative documents regulating the diagnosis and control of ASF were provided.