In 2003–2012 , the INTEGRAL observatory has performed long-term observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) .
At present , this is one of the deepest hard X-ray ( 20–60 keV ) surveys of extragalactic fields in which more than 20 sources of different natures have been detected .
We present the results of a statistical analysis of the population of high-mass X-ray binaries in the LMC and active galactic nuclei ( AGNs ) observed in its direction .
The hard X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries is shown to be described by a power law with a slope \alpha \simeq 1.8 , that in agreement with the luminosity function measurements both in the LMC itself , but made in the soft X-ray energy band , and in other galaxies .
At the same time , the number of detected AGNs toward the LMC turns out to be considerably smaller than the number of AGNs registered in other directions , in particular , toward the source 3C 273 .
The latter confirms the previously made assumption that the distribution of matter in the local Universe is nonuniform .

\englishkeywords hard X-ray sources , high-mass X-ray binaries , active galactic nuclei