  This work is an attempt to give a brief overview of the implementation of the
statistical ther- modynamics to hadronic matter. The possibility to use the
hydrodynamic approach for developing the physical model of the formation of
exotic structures in the head-on intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions is
discussed. That approach is shown to be able to provide simple analytical
expressions describing each step of the collision process. This allows for
extracting the data concerning nuclear matter properties (surface tension,
compressibility, etc.) from the properties of observed fragments. The
advantages of the thermodynamic analysis of phase trajectories of the system in
heavy ion collisions are discussed. Within the thermodynamic approach, the
method to evaluate the curvature correction to the surface tension from the
nuclear matter equation of state is described. The possibility to use
statistical thermodynamics in the studies of hadronic matter and quantum
liquids is discussed.
