diff --git a/smart-house-web/backend/Cargo.toml b/smart-house-web/backend/Cargo.toml
index 50d15ae..00ddd0c 100644
--- a/smart-house-web/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/smart-house-web/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2024"
 
 [dependencies]
-axum = "0.8.9"
-tracing = "0.1.44"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.23"
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
+axum = "0.8"
+tokio = { version = "1.52", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
diff --git a/smart-house-web/backend/src/lib.rs b/smart-house-web/backend/src/lib.rs
index fba8d83..1036c99 100644
--- a/smart-house-web/backend/src/lib.rs
+++ b/smart-house-web/backend/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+const CODE_LOGGER_INITIALIZATION_ERROR: i32 = 1;
+const CODE_TOKIO_RUNTIME_CREATION_ERROR: i32 = 2;
+const CODE_LISTENER_BINDING_ERROR: i32 = 3;
+const CODE_STARTIG_SERVER_ERROR: i32 = 4;
+
 pub fn init_logger() {
     use tracing_subscriber::{Layer, layer::SubscriberExt, util::SubscriberInitExt};
 
@@ -9,8 +14,11 @@ pub fn init_logger() {
         .boxed();
     if let Err(e) = tracing_subscriber::registry().with(vec![layer]).try_init() {
         eprintln!("Logger initialization failed: {:?}", e);
-        std::process::exit(1);
+        std::process::exit(CODE_LOGGER_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
     } else {
         tracing::trace!("Logger succesfully initialized");
     }
 }
+
+mod server;
+pub use server::run_server;
diff --git a/smart-house-web/backend/src/main.rs b/smart-house-web/backend/src/main.rs
index 339cd95..da4e57b 100644
--- a/smart-house-web/backend/src/main.rs
+++ b/smart-house-web/backend/src/main.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-use backend::init_logger;
+use backend::{init_logger, run_server};
 
 fn main() {
     init_logger();
-    println!("Hello, world!");
+    run_server();
 }
diff --git a/smart-house-web/backend/src/server.rs b/smart-house-web/backend/src/server.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21df591
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smart-house-web/backend/src/server.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+pub fn run_server() {
+    use std::process::exit;
+    use tracing::{error, info};
+
+    let runtime = match tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .worker_threads(2)
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+    {
+        Ok(runtime) => runtime,
+        Err(e) => {
+            error!("Failed to create Tokio runtime: {:?}", e);
+            exit(crate::CODE_TOKIO_RUNTIME_CREATION_ERROR);
+        }
+    };
+    runtime.block_on(async {
+        let app = axum::Router::new().fallback(fallback);
+        let addr = "127.0.0.1:8080";
+        let listener = match tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await {
+            Ok(listener) => listener,
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Failed to bind listener to {}: {:?}", addr, e);
+                exit(crate::CODE_LISTENER_BINDING_ERROR);
+            }
+        };
+        info!("Starting server at {}...", addr);
+        if let Err(e) = axum::serve(listener, app)
+            .with_graceful_shutdown(shutdown_signal())
+            .await
+        {
+            error!("Failed to start server: {:?}", e);
+            exit(crate::CODE_STARTIG_SERVER_ERROR);
+        };
+        info!("Shutdown server");
+    });
+}
+
+async fn fallback() -> axum::response::Response {
+    use axum::response::IntoResponse;
+    (axum::http::StatusCode::NOT_FOUND, "404 NOT FOUND").into_response()
+}
+
+async fn shutdown_signal() {}