1. Winners of socialist competitions

   Announcement Pages: 555 - 555

2. At the plenum of the Central Commission of the Scientific-Technical Society of Ferrous Metallurgy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 556 - 558

3. Refractories for continuous steel casting

   • A. K. Karklit
   • Yu. V. Materikin
   • N. M. Frolovskii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 564

4. Production of tar dolomite — Magnesite refractories from batch with a maximum particle size of 5 mm

   • A. P. Kudrina
   • M. I. Legkobyt
   • A. L. Nesterova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 568

5. Hydraulic pusher for drier cars

   • I. V. Grigor'ev
   • V. V. Burlakov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 569 - 569

6. Automatic temperature control in a high-temperature furnace for corrosion testing of refractory materials

   • O. N. Popov
   • A. A. Kishmishyan
   • A. A. Verlotskii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 570 - 571

7. Redesigning a burner block for high-temperature tunnel kilns

   • A. A. Mukhin
   • V. M. Kulagin
   • M. P. Rudnev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 572 - 573

8. Selecting optimum mining assembly for winning and beneficiating magnesites

   • G. G. Lomonosov
   • E. M. Panov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 574 - 577

9. Mineral-forming processes in high-alumina rammed linings of intermediate ladles during continuous steel casting

   • L. I. Karyakin
   • L. A. Tseitlin
   • A. K. Mendelenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 578 - 583

10. Deformation of working zones in open-hearth roofs

    • I. P. Bas'yas
    • G. A. Farafonov
    • Yu. K. Malyshkin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 584 - 590

11. Periclase — Spinel refractories from seawater magnesia and beneficiated chromite

    • G. I. Antonov
    • A. P. Yan'shina
    • F. M. Menzhulina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 591 - 595

12. Study of the sintering of corundum ceramics

    • V. K. Vorob'ev
    • D. N. Poluboyarinov
    • V. S. Bakunov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 596 - 600

13. Use of guncreting to increase the life of furnace linings

    • Yu. A. Pirogov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 605

14. Evaluating the vacancy concentration of a crystalline porous body

    • K. K. Strelov
    • G. P. Ishigilov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 606 - 607

15. Effect of additions of monoclinic zirconia on the spalling resistance and phase composition of ZrO₂-Y₂O₃ solid solution specimens

    • A. K. Kuznetsov
    • M. D. Krasil'nikov
    • P. A. Tikhonov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 608 - 611

16. Press mold for articles with cylindrical surfaces

    • N. P. Feshchenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 612 - 613

17. Improving the plastic properties of kaolins and kaolin bodies by electrohydraulic processing

    • I. L. Boyarina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 614 - 615

18. Some information on the production of heat-insulation abroad

    • Ya. A. Orlovskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 616 - 618

19. Fibrous insulating refractories for blast furnace stoves

    • Yu. P. Gorlov
    • V. P. Zhurba

    OriginalPaper Pages: 621 - 622

20. Introducing a sonic statistical method of quality control for class-a roof shapes

    • D. B. Min'kov
    • T. S. Makarova
    • A. M. Tikhonova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 624

21. Drying dinas concrete blocks

    • I. P. Tsibin
    • V. I. Dotsenko
    • M. Z. Naginskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 625 - 627

22. Device for studying the thermal work in a furnace lining

    • V. M. Gleizer
    • V. D. Smolyarenko
    • L. N. Kuznetsov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 628 - 630

23. Improving transport-free working systems at the Polozhe quarry

    • M. G. Novozhilov
    • V. S. Éskin
    • P. P. Agafonkin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 633

24. Effect of structural heterogeneities of zircon nozzles on their performance

    • A. K. Karklit
    • A. N. Alekseev
    • A. M. Kondratyuk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 634 - 635

25. Temperature distribution in a 130-ton converter lining of tarred brick during fast firing with coke in an oxygen jet

    • A. P. Kudrina
    • G. E. Gul'ev
    • N. T. Braginets

    OriginalPaper Pages: 636 - 639

26. Service of graphite alumina and dense siliceous insert-batchers for continuous steel casting

    • N. M. Frolovskii
    • M. G. Chigrinov
    • I. P. Kravchenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 640 - 643

27. Mineral forming processes during the service of silicon carbide refractory in a fluidized bed furnace at the nikitov mercury combine

    • V. Yu. Prokudin
    • A. N. Gaodu
    • V. P. Chepizhenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 644 - 647

28. Formation of copper chromite in chrome — Magnesite refractories during service in copper-smelters

    • V. M. Ust'yantsev
    • V. P. Mar'evich
    • V. A. Perepelitsyn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 648 - 652

29. Sintering dolomite and limestone as a function of their industrial processing and calcium fluoride additions

    • P. S. Mamykin
    • A. V. Ivanova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 653 - 656

30. Relationship between the slag resistance of refractories and their porosity

    • I. S. Kainarskii
    • E. V. Degtyareva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 657 - 662

31. Determining the surface area of refractories

    • K. K. Strelov
    • G. P. Ishigilov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 663 - 665

32. Structural and phase changes during service of resistance heaters based on zirconia

    • D. S. Rutman
    • G. A. Taksis
    • Yu. S. Toropov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 666 - 671

33. Some technological features of the production of fusion-cast corundum products

    • V. A. Rakhmanov
    • A. G. Marants
    • D. N. Poluboyarinov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 676

34. Some properties of pyrolitic boron nitride

    • N. A. Novikova
    • E. G. Vlasov
    • L. B. Nepomnyashchii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 680

35. Mechanized setting of refractories on kiln cars

    • S. B. Vinokur
    • M. E. Solov'eva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 681 - 681

36. Vibration suppressor for TR-1 and TR-2 pneumatic tampers

    • V. S. Polishchuk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 682 - 682

37. Stepan Semenovich Bovkun

    Obituaries Pages: 683 - 683