1. Decisions of the plenum of the CC CPSU, July, 1978

   Announcement Pages: 81 - 81

2. Status and prospects for improving the service life of machine parts for tractors and farm machinery

   • S. S. Iskhakov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 87

3. Effect of composition and structure on the wear resistance of steels during abrasive wear

   • L. T. Filippova
   • Ya. E. Gol'dshtein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 91

4. Effect of mechanical properties and structure on the wear resistance of steel

   • I. I. Sumina
   • V. N. Demidov

   BriefCommunication Pages: 92 - 94

5. Effect of structure on the surface strength of carbon and chromium steels during friction

   • A. G. Vinitskii
   • A. V. Galyko
   • L. A. Slyusenko

   BriefCommunication Pages: 95 - 96

6. Increasing the durability of dies by isothermal hardening

   • V. K. Zykov
   • V. A. Zhurilo
   • V. A. Kudlai

   BriefCommunication Pages: 96 - 97

7. Brittleness of α, ε, and γ solid solutions of Fe-Mn alloys

   • A. P. Gulyaev
   • T. F. Volynova

   Theory Pages: 98 - 104

8. Mechanism of grain boundary strengthening of steels

   • M. I. Gol'dshtein
   • B. M. Bronfin
   • V. V. Osipov

   Theory Pages: 104 - 109

9. Change in the structure of hot-worked austenite in nickel steels during post-deformation holding

   • M. L. Bernshtein
   • L. M. Kaputkina
   • N. A. Nikishov

   Theory Pages: 109 - 114

10. Effect of Widmanstatten ferrite on some properties of hypoeutectoid steel

    • G. Z. Koval'chuk
    • V. N. Geichenko
    • L. V. Podobedova

    Theory Pages: 114 - 117

11. Electron-microscopic investigation of structural transformations in steel 10Kh11N23T3MR

    • Z. M. Rulina
    • G. G. Solov'eva
    • K. P. Sorokina

    Theory Pages: 118 - 121

12. Characteristics of the disappearance of excess vacancies on dislocations in aluminum alloys

    • Yu. S. Nechaev
    • A. S. Bubenshchikov

    Theory Pages: 121 - 126

13. Effect of technological parameters on the structure of the case after low-temperature carbonitriding

    • L. M. Semenova
    • E. V. Beskrovnaya
    • G. G. Kuznetsov

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 127 - 129

14. Kinetics of processes of chemicothermal treatment of metals and alloys

    • I. I. Baram
    • Yu. M. Lakhtin
    • Ya. D. Kogan

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 129 - 132

15. Nitriding of high-strength aging steel with 21% Ni

    • V. G. Alekhin
    • V. G. Gorbach
    • T. L. Kurganova

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 132 - 135

16. Nitriding of steels in molten nitrates

    • L. S. Lyakhovich
    • G. G. Panich
    • Yu. N. Presman

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 135 - 137

17. Structure and properties of steel after nitriding in molten salts

    • E. G. Val'skii
    • G. A. Galina
    • N. M. Sarnavskii

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 138 - 140

18. Chemicothermal strengthening of niobium alloys in the cold-worked condition

    • Yu. A. Dushin
    • L. I. Emel'yanova

    Chemicothermal Treatment Pages: 140 - 143

19. High-plasticity effect in titanium alloy OT4

    • Yu. P. Pshenichnov
    • A. I. Chernitsyn
    • T. A. Volosova

    Titanium and Its Alloys Pages: 144 - 147

20. Ductility of titanium alloys with different phase compositions at low temperatures

    • E. A. Borisova
    • N. I. Kirichenko

    Titanium and Its Alloys Pages: 147 - 149

21. Properties and heat treatment of Ti-W and Ti-W-Al alloys

    • V. N. Moiseev
    • E. V. Znamenskaya
    • T. G. Danilina

    Titanium and Its Alloys Pages: 149 - 152

22. All-Union Scientific—Technical Symposium on Heat Treatment and Chemicothermal Treatment in Machine Construction

    • A. M. Kim-Khenkina

    Chronicles Pages: 153 - 155

23. Electron microscopic autoradiography in metal science

    • Ch. V. Kopetskii

    Book Reviews Pages: 156 - 157