We give a survey of recent development and applications of the chiral
quark soliton model (also called the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio soliton model)
with N-f=2 and N-f=3 quark flavors for the structure of baryons. The
model is an effective chiral quark model obtained from the instanton l
iquid model of the quantum chromodynamics. Mesons appear as quark-anti
quark excitations and baryons arise as non-topological solitons with t
hree valence quarks and a polarized Dirac sea. In this model, a wide v
ariety of observables of baryons is considered.