  In relativistic ion collisions there are excellent opportunities to produce
and investigate hyper-nuclei. We have systematically studied the formation of
hypernuclear spectator residues in peripheral heavy-ion collisions with the
transport DCM and UrQMD models. The hyperon capture was calculated within the
potential and coalescence approaches. We demonstrate that even at the beam
energies around and lower than the threshold for producing Lambda hyperons in
binary nucleon-nucleon interactions a considerable amount of hypernuclei,
including multi-strange ones, can be produced. This is important for
preparation of new experiments on hypernuclei in the wide energy range. The
uncertainties of the predictions are investigated within the models, and the
comparison with the strangeness production measured in experiments is also
performed.
