[en] Polymer gels are crosslinked polymer networks swollen by a fluid. If magnetic particles either as powder or dispersed in a magnetic fluid are introduced into the gel then the system becomes sensitive to external magnetic fields and the resulting material is called ferrogel. The polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-magnetite ferrogels system has properties that are attractive for artificial muscles and drug delivery systems for biomedical applications. This work investigates the synthesis and characterization of a ferrogel obtained by freezing-thawing cycles. PVA (M_W=89,000-98,000, degree of hydrolyzation: 99 mol%) and magnetite nanoparticles (∼12 nm) obtained by chemical coprecipitation were used as raw materials. The PVA-magnetite ferrogels were prepared by subjecting a PVA/DMSO/magnetite solution (2 g/30 ml/0.2 g) to freeze (-25 deg. C)/thaw (+25 deg. C) cycles. The resulting ferrogel was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and vibration sample magnetometry (VSM). The magnetic particles inside the PVA matrix formed agglomerates with average size ∼58 nm. All the ferrogels showed superparamagnetic behavior with maximum magnetization of 0.6 emu/g