[en] The paper reviews briefly the experiments in which momentum spectra of pions, protons and deuterons emitted at different angles in the interval up to 30 deg and at 90 deg (pions only) in the collisions of protons with an energy of 670 MeV as well as protons and deuterons with a momentum of 4.3, 6.3 and 8.9 GeV/c from various atomic nuclei (H, D, Li, Be, C, Al, Cu, Pb, Bi, U) are studied. These experiments were the first in which direct knocking-out of deuterons induced by high-energy protons has been found out and analyzed. The results of investigation of inclusive proton and deuteron spectra the main features of which are reproduced satisfactorily within the multiple NN diffraction scattering model are described. There are also quoted the results of analysis of inelastic scattered deuteron spectra within the quark-parton interaction picture. The experimental data have been obtained at the JINR 6 meter synchrocyclotron using the magnetic spectrometer with a telescope of scintillation counters and at the JINR synchrophasotron using the one-arm magnetic spectrometer with wire spark chambers