Baryons and nuclei as skyrmions

The topological soliton model, including its various extensions, is reviewed. The model is very compact and involves only small number of Lagrangian parameters which in principle are calculable from QCD. It provides a nice tool for describing the structure of baryons.Lectures held at the Indian-Summer School on Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions of Particles with Nuclei, Sázava, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 September 1992