1. Metallurgists who won USSR state prizes in 1977

   Announcement Pages: 3 - 10

2. Production innovators' advanced methods for the five-year plan of quality

   • L. V. Zolotarev

   Help for the Schools of Communist Labor Pages: 11 - 14

3. Along the path of progress

   • V. T. Babenko

   Help for the Schools of Communist Labor Pages: 14 - 17

4. Improving technicoeconomic indices of blast-furnace smelting

   • G. K. Zolotuev
   • N. L. Zhilo
   • A. V. Denisov

   Pig Iron Pages: 18 - 22

5. Evaluating the sinterability of iron-bearing sludges

   • V. A. Likhodievskii

   Pig Iron Pages: 23 - 25

6. Continuous control system for initial gas permeability of sinter feed

   • V. V. Gorbunov
   • A. I. Girik
   • B. I. Tsinis

   Pig Iron Pages: 25 - 26

7. Device to measure level of electrically conducting materials

   • P. A. Polovoi
   • V. I. Grankovskii
   • K. V. Molokankin

   Pig Iron Pages: 27 - 27

8. Precleaning sintering waste gases

   • L. D. Gots
   • N. F. Bur'yan
   • S. I. Bliznyuk

   Pig Iron Pages: 28 - 29

9. The Sobolevs

   • A. Yas'kov

   Those Who Look Ahead Pages: 30 - 32

10. Adoption of stream control of the hydrogen saturation of steel

    • A. V. Ivanchenko
    • M. I. Sorokin

    Steel Pages: 33 - 35

11. Fastening sand-pulp inserts

    • V. I. Baranov
    • R. M. Tyusheva
    • V. E. Korostelev

    Steel Pages: 35 - 36

12. Increased life for open-hearth furnace roofs

    • I. P. Bas'yas
    • G. A. Farafonov
    • N. P. Titov

    Steel Pages: 36 - 38

13. Device for measuring the temperature and thickness of steelmaking furnace linings

    • A. I. Kosyrev
    • V. V. Pikhotenko
    • O. N. Sokolov

    Steel Pages: 39 - 41

14. Heating open-hearth furnaces

    • N. N. Aksyuchits
    • A. L. Zasukhin
    • Yu. G. Gubin

    Steel Pages: 41 - 42

15. Composite regenerative checkers for open-hearth furnaces

    • L. M. Vasil'ev
    • A. A. Noskov
    • Yu. V. Lukanin

    Steel Pages: 42 - 43

16. Mechanization of flue stripping and filling during capital repairs to open-hearth furnaces

    • Yu. I. Penyaz'
    • M. N. Avdonin
    • S. M. Abramovich

    Steel Pages: 43 - 44

17. Equipment modernization during capital repairs

    • E. E. Berdichevskii
    • G. F. Shkol'nikov

    Rolling Pages: 45 - 47

18. Differential strip cooling

    • Yu. D. Zheleznov
    • Yu. A. Mukhin
    • Yu. P. Schegol'kov

    Rolling Pages: 47 - 50

19. Determining optimum pass configurations by the planned-experiment method

    • V. T. Zhadan
    • V. S. Berkovskii
    • A. N. Tabakov

    Rolling Pages: 50 - 53

20. Modernization of contact strip-thickness gauge

    • V. A. Osokin
    • V. P. Luzin

    Rolling Pages: 54 - 56

21. Use of metallic coatings to reduce noise level

    • V. N. Brinza
    • M. A. Nozdrin

    Industrial Safety Pages: 57 - 57

22. Improved working conditions for continuous sheet-pickling unit operators

    • V. I. Il'kun
    • O. I. Soskovets
    • N. E. Kovalenko

    Industrial Safety Pages: 58 - 58

23. British metallurgists in the Soviet Union

    • V. Kleeberg

    International Communications Pages: 59 - 60

24. Francium

    • S. Venetskii

    International Communications Pages: 61 - 65

25. The jet blowing of melts

    • O. Ya. Annenko

    New Books Pages: 66 - 67