The invention relates to mechanical engineering and can be used in hydraulic systems for transferring hydraulic energy between working liquids with different temperatures with reduced heat exchange between said working liquids. The problem addressed by the present invention consists in producing a hydraulic shock absorber for transferring hydraulic energy between working liquids with different temperatures with reduced heat exchange between said working liquids. This problem is solved in that a hydraulic shock absorber is proposed which comprises a housing in which at least two reservoirs of variable volume are arranged, said reservoirs being separate from one another and each communicating with a dedicated port in the housing. The reservoirs of variable volume are separated from one another by at least two movable dividing walls, between which at least one buffer reservoir is formed which is filled with a working liquid, preferably with a low thermal conductivity, i.e. a thermal conductivity not exceeding 0.2 Wm-1K-1.