The conditions for realizing the rotation motion of material under shock loading are investigated by combining the laser interferometry of the free surface velocity and conventional methods of optical and electron microscopy. A detailed description of successive stages of the rotations forming both at the mesoscopical scale level and superstructural one is presented. It is shown that for realizing rotation motion at any scale level an essential difference is accelerations of adjacent microvolumes must be provided. The dimensionless ratio of the particle velocity distribution width to average particle velocity is suggested to be the criterion for change of the deforming and fracture mechanism from translational to rotational at some given scale.