In order to develop an effective catalyst for the low-temperaturehydrogenation of aromatic hydrocarbons the authors prepared andstudied a series of catalysts containing precious metals on the support – hyper-cross-linked polystyrene, which has developed specific surface area (> 1000 m2/g) and high thermal stability. There are tests of Pt-and Pd-containing catalysts based on hyper-cross-linked polystyrene, carbon and alumina supports in hydrogenation reactions of simple (benzene, toluene), branched (n-butylbenzene) and polycyclic (terphenyl) aromatic compounds. Found that in reactions of hydrogenation of aromatic hydrocarbons on the activity of hypercross-linked polystyrene catalysts are comparable or higher than the activity of catalysts with noble metal catalysts based on Al2O3 and sibunit; the hyper-cross-linked polystyrene catalysts have higher selectivity for the hydrogenation of benzene in a mixture of benzene and toluene. By IR spectroscopy of adsorbed CO the electronic state of metals was studied in the Pt (Pd)/hyper-cross-linked polystyrene catalysts. When the catalysts testing in hydrogenation of terphenyl it was found that the Pt-containing catalyst at hyper-crosslinked polystyrene can reversibly work in cycles of hydrogenationdehydrogenation (terphenyl – tercyclohexane), what is promising for the use such catalytic systems for the creation of composite materials for hydrogen storage.