Background. The assessment of clinical manifestations in patients with acute pre-circular infarction is important for verification of the lesion, the choice of the treatment program, prediction of the stroke consequences. The purpose is to investigate the clinical, neurological, and neuroimaging features of lacunar and non-lacunar carotid infarctions in acute ischemic stroke and to assess their short-term consequences. Materials and methods. There was performed a clinical and radiological analysis of carotid infarction in 540 patients with acute ischemic stroke, which were divided into two groups: 155 patients were verified for infarcts in the cortex and white matter of the brain in the vasculature of the anterior and middle cerebral artery; in 385 patients, infarct foci were found in the area of the deep hemispheres of the brain (subcortical-capsular infarcts). Results. Clinical neuroimaging analysis of patients with ischemic stroke in the vasculature of the cortical branches of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries of the anterior circulatory basin showed that acute cerebral circulatory disorders caused the development of small cortical infarctions in 89 (57.4 %) patients and 65 (41 %) — lacunar infarction, in one patient (0.7 %) with occlusion of the proximal anterior cerebral artery — total infarction. The neurological clinical picture of infarcts of varying localization, which was determined by the location and size of the lesion, was described. Conclusions. The obtained results showed that the consequences of anterior circular infarctions depended on the localization of the lesion of the arterial area, the caliber of the infarction of the dependent artery, the size of the infarct locus. For the most part, these factors determined the background severity of neurological deficit after the development of acute ischemic stroke.