The process of thermal degradation of lignins of hard wood (birch, aspen, oak), obtained under the wood treatment with 66% sulphuric acid in the form of acid-in-soluble and soluble fractions, has been investigated by thermal methods. Activation energy values of lignin pyrolysis have been determined at the stage of increasing rate of weight loss. It has been established that the difference in their thermal properties is conditioned by the structural changes in the process of isolation from wood. It has been suggested that acid-soluble lignins have a higher density than acid-insoluble ones. Sulphuric acid lignins of birch, in particular acid-soluble lignin, are assumed to possess a more homogeneous structure than sulphuric acid lignins of other species