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There exist approximately 260 stable and 2500 unstable nuclear isotopes starting from the hydrogen up to superheavy elements with mass number ~ 290. Nuclear structure varies significantly across the nuclear chart and, moreover, even the different energy states of one given isotope can correspond to very diverse structures – there are single-particle or collective excitations, rotational and vibrational states, so called pygmy or breathing modes, phenomena such as backbending, wobbling and others. This complexity of states and phenomena arises from simplicity. At least in principle we should be able to describe all mentioned above by studying the nuclear Hamiltonian, for which we only need the knowledge of mutual nucleon-nucleon interactions. However, such goal remains to be one of the most persisting and challenging problems of modern physics.