  We give an introductory overview of the classical Poincar\'e gauge theory of
gravity formulated on the spacetime manifold that carries the Riemann-Cartan
geometry with nontrivial curvature and torsion. After discussing the basic
mathematical structures at an elementary level in the framework of the standard
tensor analysis, we formulate the general dynamical scheme of Poincar\'e gauge
gravity for the class of Yang-Mills type models, and consider a selected number
of physically interesting consequences of this theory.
