in a plasma. We show that when the coupling to ion acoustic waves is negligible, the
reduced nonlinear equation is a generalization of the Hasegawa-Mima equation to the three-
dimensional (3D) case. We find an exact analytical solution of this equation in the form of a
3D soliton drift wave (3D modon). By numerical simulations we study collisions between the
modons and show that the collisions can be fully elastic.