As it is well known the problem of solving the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind belongs to the class of ill-posed problems. The Tikhonov regularization method is well known. This method is usually applied to an integral equation and a system of linear algebraic equations. The authors firstly propose to reduce the integral equation of the first kind to a system of linear algebraic equations. This system is usually extremely ill-posed. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out the Tikhonov regularization for the system of equations. In this paper, to form a system of linear algebraic equations, local polynomial and non-polynomial spline approximations of the second order of approximation are used. The results of numerical experiments are presented.