1. Introduction to QCD sum rules: Historical survey and physical picture -- 2. Foundations of the QCD sum rule method and sample applications -- 3. Coefficients in the operator product expansion -- 4. Heavy quarks in the sum rules. Pre-Coulombic behavior -- 5. Baryons -- 6. Form factors at intermediate Q2 -- 7. Hadrons in external fields: static characteristics -- 8. Multicolor chromodynamics and the sum rules -- 9. Survey of new trends.