Abstract: The authors of the article examine issues related to detection, fixing, withdrawal and official registration of footwear traces and traces of hands at the crime scene. Special attention is paid to the methods of withdrawal of footwear and hands traces because these are the traces that are found at the crime scene most frequently. In its turn, accuracy and professional qualities of a forensic specialist allow to preserve trces and later use them during expertise. In their research the authors have used general research methods as well as specific research methods such as the standard logical method, systems approach, synthesis, analysis, induction, deduction and other research methods. The main conclusion of the research is that despite a great variety of methods used to withdrawal material evidence such as traces of hands and footwaer, the most efficient method is still the withdrawal of a trace together with an object. This is a rather universal method that keeps material evidence intact.