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This thesis deals with study of mappings preserving Borel classes or absolute Borel classes. We prove a theorem which shows that under some assumptions there exists a (selection) function with certain properties. Using this theorem we obtain several results on preservation of Borel classes. Moreover, thanks to that theorem we prove a theorem on preservation of absolute Borel classes under a perfect mapping. Next, we show an assertion which implies that a piecewise closed mapping has a restriction that is "piecewise perfect" and its image is equal to the image of the original mapping. Under certain additional assumptions we prove a similar assertion for an Fσ-mapping instead of a piecewise closed mapping. Using these assertions and the theorem on preservation of absolute Borel classes under a perfect mapping we obtain further results on preservation of absolute Borel classes, in particular, for piecewise closed mappings and Fσ- -mappings. In the last chapter we study mappings such that the inverse image of an open set under these mappings is of a particular additive class. 1