  The NUCLEON experiment was designed to study the chemical composition and
energy spectra of galactic cosmic ray nuclei from protons to zinc at energies
of $\sim10^{11}$--$10^{15}$\,eV per particle. The research was carried out with
the NUCLEON scientific equipment installed on the Russian satellite "Resurs-P"
No.\,2 as an additional payload. This article presents the results for the
measured nuclei spectra related to the first approximately 250 days of the
scientific data collection during 2015 and 2016. The all-particle spectrum and
the spectra of p, He, C, O, Ne, Mg, Si and Fe are presented. Some interesting
ratios of the spectra are also presented and discussed. The experiment is now
in its beginning stage and the data still have a preliminary character, but
they already give numerous indications of the existence of various
non-canonical phenomena in the physics of cosmic rays, which are expressed in
the violation of a simple universal power law of the energy spectra. These
features of the the data are briefly discussed.
