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Аннотация:The method we developed for searching for water and other minerals on the Moon was previously tested on the example of Earth and Mars (Chuikova et al., 2014, 2019, 2020). The essence of the technique is that, based only on space data on the gravitational field and the relief of the planet, the most likely depths of isostatic compensation of the relief masses are uniquely determined, and the distribution of compensating masses at these depts is constructed. It is particularly important to apply this technique to the far side of the Moon, where possible places of deposits of water and other volatile elements (for example, helium-3) under lowlands and deposits of dense rocks under highlands are found. For the purpose of verification, the locations of maskons on the Earth were determined using a similar method and the possible locations of volatile and other mineral reserves were found to correspond to previously explored deposits.