[Authors] Nazarov, A. I.; Poborchi, S. V. [Title] On the necessary conditions of the Poincare inequality [AMS Subj-class] 26D10 Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators [Abstract] We show that the Poincar\'{e} inequality in a domain $\Omega$ implies $|\Omega|<\infty$. [Comments] LaTeX, Russian, 3 pp. [Contact e-mail] al.il.nazarov@gmail.com