The invariant subspace problem is: does every operator acting on an infinite-dimensional complex separable Hilbert space have a nontrivial invariant subspace? This is, probably, the most important open question in the operator theory. In particular, the problem of the invariant subspace remains open (at least until now) for hyponormal operators, that is, it is still unknown whether every hyponormal operator (on a complex separable Hilbert space) has a nontrivial invariant subspace. The purpose of these dissertation is to present, in an unified way, a survey on invariant subspaces for hyponormal operators. At first, the invariant subspace problem is posed in a general form (without any restriction on the operator classes), where some of classical results are discussed. Secondly, the specific problem of finding invariant subspaces for hyponormal operators is presented in a systematic way and, in particular, we show some characteristics of the spectrum of a hyponormal operator with no nontrivial invariant subspace.