S.Duzhin, V.Lychagin. Symmetries of Distributions and Quadrature of Ordinary Differential Equations. We present a geometric exposition of S.Lie's and E.Cartan's theory of explicit integration of finite type (in particular, ordinary) differential equations. Numerous examples of how this theory works are given. In one of these, we propose a method of hunting for particular solutions of partial differential equations via symmetry preserving overdetermination.