%0 Journal Article %T On physical foundations and observational effects of cosmic rotation %A Yuri N. Obukhov %J Physics %D 2000 %I arXiv %X An overview of the cosmological models with expansion, shear and rotation is presented. Problems of the rotating models are discussed, their general kinematic properties and dynamical realizations are described. A particular attention is paid to the discussion of possible observational effects which could be used to estimate or to put limits on the cosmic rotation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008106v1