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In seventies, structural models were subjected to the criticism more and more. In the article the author presented reasons of the criticism of structural models and theoretical bases of vector autoregression models which was introduced in article C. A. Sims in 1980. An example of using VAR models was also expressed for the modelling of macroeconomic variables. In the summary the author described defects and virtues of VAR models in the context of the structural attempt at the econometric modelling.