An approximate method for determination of the stress state of thin plates with curvilinear holes, consisting in the use of the complex potential theory of bending of anisotropic plates, approximating the contours of holes by ellipse arcs and straight sections, the use of conformal mapping, presentation of complex potentials by Laurent series and determining the unknown series coefficients of the generalized least squares method. Isotropic plates are considered as a special case of anisotropic plates.