  After recent systematic optical, IR, and HI surveys, the total number of
known galaxies within 10 Mpc has increased from 179 to 550. About half this
Local Volume (LV) sample is now been imaged with HST, yielding the galaxy
distances with an accuracy of about 8%. For the majority of the LV galaxies we
currently have H-alpha fluxes that allow us to reconstruct the star formation
history of our neighbourhood.
  For the late-type LV galaxies their HI masses and angular momentum follow the
linear relation in the range of 4 orders, which is expected for rotating
gaseous disks being near the gravitational instability threshold.
  The data obtained on the LV galaxies imply important cosmological parameters,
in particular, the mean local matter density and HI mass density, as well as
SFR density.
  Surprisingly, the local Hubble flow around the LV groups is very quiet, with
1D rms deviations of 25 km/s,which is a signature of the Universe
vacuum-dominated on small scales. The cold infall pattern around nearby groups
provides us with a new method to determine the total mass of the groups
independent from virial mass estimates.
