The aim of the paper is to study solvability in Sobolev spaces initial-boundary value problems for differential equations u(tt) - phi(t)Au+ c(x, t)u = f (x, t) in which A is an elliptic operator acting in the spatial variables x(1),. . . ,x(n) and phi(t) is a non-negative function on the segment [0, T]. Existence theorems of regular solutions are proven. Some generalizations of the results are also described