1. From the editor in chief

   • V. Shevchenko

   EditorialNotes 07 January 2010 Pages: 559 - 559

2. On the kinetics of crack growth in glass

   • V. P. Pukh
   • L. G. Baikova
   • L. V. Tikhonova

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 560 - 566

3. On the durability of glasses in the range of low stresses

   • V. V. Shevelev

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 567 - 571

4. Influence of the composition and temperature of heat treatment of porous glasses on their structure and light transmission in the visible spectral range

   • T. V. Antropova
   • I. N. Anfimova
   • G. F. Golovina

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 572 - 579

5. Structure and properties of glasses in the MgSO₄-Na₂B₄O₇-KPO₃ system

   • V. G. Vyatchina
   • L. A. Perelyaeva
   • I. V. Baklanova

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 580 - 585

6. Calculations of stresses in a “glass-amorphous alloy” composite

   • N. O. Gonchukova
   • S. L. Ratushnyak

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 586 - 591

7. Electrical conductivity of CuI-Cu₂Se-As₂Se₃ chalcogenide films prepared by chemical deposition

   • D. L. Baidakov
   • E. V. Shkol’nikov

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 592 - 595

8. Thermal properties of ecological phosphate and silicate glasses

   • M. Elisa
   • B. A. Sava
   • C. Logofatu

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 596 - 601

9. Influence of the presence of bubbles on the parameters of crystal nucleation in the 26Li₂O · 74SiO₂ glass

   • G. A. Sycheva

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 602 - 612

10. Atomic modeling and prediction of the structure, energy characteristics of point defects, and thermodynamic and elastic properties of the simple and complex beryllium oxides

    • N. N. Eremin
    • N. A. Gromalova
    • V. S. Urusov

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 613 - 619

11. Change in the optical properties of amorphous films of transition metal oxides upon formation of the nanocrystalline phase

    • V. I. Shapovalov
    • L. P. Efimenko
    • I. G. Polyakova

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 620 - 626

12. Structure of a biologically active binuclear palladium complex in the compound bis(bis[(μ₂-2-chloroethylammonium) (1,10-phenanthroline)-palladium(I)]) · octanitrates · dihydrates

    • A. E. Lapshin
    • O. V. Magdysyuk

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 627 - 636

13. Synthesis and crystal structure of the low-temperature modification of lithium potassium zinc diphosphate LiKZnP₂O₇

    • A. E. Lapshin
    • M. A. Petrova

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 637 - 642

14. Atomic charges in YBa₂Cu₃O₇, YBa₂Cu₄O₈, and Y₂Ba₄Cu₇O₁₅ ceramic samples

    • G. A. Bordovskii
    • A. V. Marchenko
    • P. P. Seregin

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 643 - 651

15. EPR study of compounds in the LaAlO₃-La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ system

    • S. I. Andronenko
    • R. R. Andronenko
    • N. V. Chezhina

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 652 - 659

16. Ferroelectric phase transition in the PbSe + PbSeO₃ composite

    • V. V. Tomaev

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 660 - 667

17. Preparation and investigation of 0.7AgI · 0.3ZnO nanocomposite films

    • V. V. Tomaev
    • Yu. S. Tver’yanovich
    • A. B. Missyul’

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 668 - 672

18. Structural investigation of some important Chinese diatomites

    • Zhi-Ying Wang
    • Li-Ping Zhang
    • Yu-Xiang Yang

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 673 - 679

19. Evaluation of the structural parameters of two-phase glasses from transmission electron microscope images

    • I. V. Kukhtevich
    • T. V. Antropova

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2010 Pages: 680 - 682

20. Valerii Ivanovich Arbuzov (On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday)

    Jubilees and Remarkable Dates 07 January 2010 Pages: 683 - 684