Аннотация:The anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility above the Curie temperature and the anisotropy of the magnetization of the paraprocess in the neighborhood of this temperature were measured for oriented polycrystalline hexagonal ferrites with compositions of the form Zn2Y, Co2Z and SrO.4.4 F2O3.1.6Cr2O3 along the c axis and in the basal plane.It was found that the paramagnetic Curie point in the direction of plane of easy magnetization was several degrees higher than in the direction of hard magnetization. The magnetization curves in the neighborhood of the Curie point were analyzed by thermodynamic Landau method: this enabled the "anisotropy of the Curie point" to be calculated. In the plane or direction of easy magnetization the Curie point was several degrees higher than in the direction of hard magnetization. Within the limits of experimental error, the anisotropy of the paramagnetic Curie and the "anisotropy of the Curie point" were equal to one another. By analyzing the measured anisotropy of the paramagnetic susceptibility and the magnetization of the paraprocess in the neighborhood of the Curie point, the anisotropy constant K1 was calculated; it was demonstrated that this could be represented in the form K1 = K1S + K1H,where K1S is an anisotropy constant not depending on the magnetic field while K1H is a fied-dependent anisonropy constant. The constant K1S vanishes at the Curie point, while K1H remains finite in the neighborhood of Curie point and in paramagnetic region. The field dependence of K1H may be explained as being due to the influence of the paraprocess.