diff --git a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/pom.xml b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/pom.xml
index 2f530958e3..95036da775 100644
--- a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/pom.xml
+++ b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
             <artifactId>tradukisto</artifactId>
             <version>${tradukisto.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+            <version>28.1-jre</version>
+        </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
diff --git a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/CycleDetector.java b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/CycleDetector.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dec0bcdd85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/CycleDetector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.kruskal;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class CycleDetector {
+
+    List<DisjointSetInfo> nodes;
+
+    public CycleDetector(int totalNodes) {
+        initDisjointSets(totalNodes);
+    }
+
+    public boolean detectCycle(Integer u, Integer v) {
+        Integer rootU = pathCompressionFind(u);
+        Integer rootV = pathCompressionFind(v);
+        if (rootU.equals(rootV)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        unionByRank(rootU, rootV);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private void initDisjointSets(int totalNodes) {
+        nodes = new ArrayList<>(totalNodes);
+        for (int i = 0; i < totalNodes; i++) {
+            nodes.add(new DisjointSetInfo(i));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Integer find(Integer node) {
+        Integer parent = nodes.get(node).getParentNode();
+        if (parent.equals(node)) {
+            return node;
+        } else {
+            return find(parent);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Integer pathCompressionFind(Integer node) {
+        DisjointSetInfo setInfo = nodes.get(node);
+        Integer parent = setInfo.getParentNode();
+        if (parent.equals(node)) {
+            return node;
+        } else {
+            Integer parentNode = find(parent);
+            setInfo.setParentNode(parentNode);
+            return parentNode;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void union(Integer rootU, Integer rootV) {
+        DisjointSetInfo setInfoU = nodes.get(rootU);
+        setInfoU.setParentNode(rootV);
+    }
+
+    private void unionByRank(int rootU, int rootV) {
+        DisjointSetInfo setInfoU = nodes.get(rootU);
+        DisjointSetInfo setInfoV = nodes.get(rootV);
+        int rankU = setInfoU.getRank();
+        int rankV = setInfoV.getRank();
+        if (rankU < rankV) {
+            setInfoU.setParentNode(rootV);
+        } else {
+            setInfoV.setParentNode(rootU);
+            if (rankU == rankV) {
+                setInfoU.setRank(rankU + 1);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/DisjointSetInfo.java b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/DisjointSetInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ecdc42587a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/DisjointSetInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.kruskal;
+
+public class DisjointSetInfo {
+
+    private Integer parentNode;
+    private int rank;
+
+    DisjointSetInfo(Integer nodeNumber) {
+        setParentNode(nodeNumber);
+        setRank(1);
+    }
+
+    public Integer getParentNode() {
+        return parentNode;
+    }
+
+    public void setParentNode(Integer parentNode) {
+        this.parentNode = parentNode;
+    }
+
+    public int getRank() {
+        return rank;
+    }
+
+    public void setRank(int rank) {
+        this.rank = rank;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/Kruskal.java b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/Kruskal.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da405679d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/Kruskal.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.kruskal;
+
+import com.google.common.graph.EndpointPair;
+import com.google.common.graph.MutableValueGraph;
+import com.google.common.graph.ValueGraph;
+import com.google.common.graph.ValueGraphBuilder;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+public class Kruskal {
+
+    public ValueGraph<Integer, Double> minSpanningTree(ValueGraph<Integer, Double> graph) {
+
+        return spanningTree(graph, true);
+    }
+
+    public ValueGraph<Integer, Double> maxSpanningTree(ValueGraph<Integer, Double> graph) {
+        return spanningTree(graph, false);
+    }
+
+    private ValueGraph<Integer, Double> spanningTree(ValueGraph<Integer, Double> graph, boolean minSpanningTree) {
+        Set<EndpointPair<Integer>> edges = graph.edges();
+        List<EndpointPair<Integer>> edgeList = new ArrayList<>(edges);
+
+        if (minSpanningTree) {
+            edgeList.sort(Comparator.comparing(e -> graph.edgeValue(e).get()));
+        } else {
+            edgeList.sort(Collections.reverseOrder(Comparator.comparing(e -> graph.edgeValue(e).get())));
+        }
+
+        int totalNodes = graph.nodes().size();
+        CycleDetector cycleDetector = new CycleDetector(totalNodes);
+        int edgeCount = 0;
+
+        MutableValueGraph<Integer, Double> spanningTree = ValueGraphBuilder.undirected().build();
+        for (EndpointPair<Integer> edge : edgeList) {
+            if (cycleDetector.detectCycle(edge.nodeU(), edge.nodeV())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            spanningTree.putEdgeValue(edge.nodeU(), edge.nodeV(), graph.edgeValue(edge).get());
+            edgeCount++;
+            if (edgeCount == totalNodes - 1) {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        return spanningTree;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/KruskalUnitTest.java b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/KruskalUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7206c6cd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/algorithms-miscellaneous-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/kruskal/KruskalUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.kruskal;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import com.google.common.graph.MutableValueGraph;
+import com.google.common.graph.ValueGraph;
+import com.google.common.graph.ValueGraphBuilder;
+import com.baeldung.algorithms.kruskal.Kruskal;
+
+public class KruskalUnitTest {
+
+    private MutableValueGraph<Integer, Double> graph;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setup() {
+        graph = ValueGraphBuilder.undirected().build();
+        graph.putEdgeValue(0, 1, 8.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(0, 2, 5.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(1, 2, 9.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(1, 3, 11.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(2, 3, 15.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(2, 4, 10.0);
+        graph.putEdgeValue(3, 4, 7.0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGraph_whenMinimumSpanningTree_thenOutputCorrectResult() {
+        final Kruskal kruskal = new Kruskal();
+        ValueGraph<Integer, Double> spanningTree = kruskal.minSpanningTree(graph);
+
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(0, 1));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(0, 2));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(2, 4));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(3, 4));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(0, 1), spanningTree.edgeValue(0, 1));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(0, 2), spanningTree.edgeValue(0, 2));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(2, 4), spanningTree.edgeValue(2, 4));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(3, 4), spanningTree.edgeValue(3, 4));
+
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(1, 2));
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(1, 3));
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(2, 3));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGraph_whenMaximumSpanningTree_thenOutputCorrectResult() {
+        final Kruskal kruskal = new Kruskal();
+        ValueGraph<Integer, Double> spanningTree = kruskal.maxSpanningTree(graph);
+
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(0, 1));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(1, 3));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(2, 3));
+        assertTrue(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(2, 4));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(0, 1), spanningTree.edgeValue(0, 1));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(1, 3), spanningTree.edgeValue(1, 3));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(2, 3), spanningTree.edgeValue(2, 3));
+        assertEquals(graph.edgeValue(2, 4), spanningTree.edgeValue(2, 4));
+
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(0, 2));
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(1, 2));
+        assertFalse(spanningTree.hasEdgeConnecting(3, 4));
+    }
+}