1. The confident step ahead of the first year of the tenth five-year plan

   Announcement Pages: 653 - 654

2. Awards for the best people

   • Ya. G. Gaponov

   Announcement Pages: 655 - 657

3. Nonspalling periclase-chromite refractories from fused periclase and their performance in cupronickel converters

   • V. A. Bron
   • V. A. Perepelitsyn
   • K. V. Simonov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 658 - 663

4. A rotary-ring tunnel kiln for heat-treating phosphate-bonded refractories

   • V. I. Zvyagin
   • V. V. Ustinov
   • M. Z. Shvartsman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 664 - 667

5. Firing Vladimirovsk kaolin in a rotary kiln with shaft-type heat exchangers

   • A. V. Sevrikov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 670

6. Cylindrical specimens of refractories produced with a diamond drill

   • Yu. M. Buki
   • V. M. Gurtovenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 671 - 673

7. A granular dust filter for the exhaust gases of drying drums

   • V. I. Chumarnyi
   • N. I. Alekseev
   • B. M. Seplyarskii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 674 - 675

8. Improved methods of studying water-bearing strata for drainage purposes

   • Yu. Z. Dobrin
   • I. N. Selezneva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 676 - 680

9. The condition of carbon blocks after service in a blast furnace

   • I. F. Usatikov
   • V. V. Kornev
   • T. G. Gal'chenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 681 - 685

10. Porosity, apparent density, and structure of dinas blocks after heating

    • P. A. Selyanin
    • I. P. Tsibin
    • L. Ya. Pivnik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 686 - 687

11. Phosphate-bonded zirconia ramming compounds for the thermal stripping of the fuel elements of fast reactors

    • V. G. Pastushkov
    • G. P. Novoselov
    • G. B. Borisov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 687 - 691

12. Superduty ceramics based on calcium oxide

    • R. Ya. Popil'skii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 692 - 699

13. The technology and properties of corundum heat storage materials

    • É. V. Degtyareva
    • I. I. Kabakova
    • L. A. Resser

    OriginalPaper Pages: 699 - 704

14. The effect of additives on the thermal strength of corundum products

    • A. G. Karaulov
    • T. E. Sudarkina
    • N. V. Gul'ko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 705 - 709

15. A composition material from graphite and high-melting compounds

    • Yu. N. Petrov
    • B. S. Kul'varskaya
    • V. A. Malakhova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 709 - 713

16. Spot welding the banding of packs of refractory products

    • S. P. Danilenko
    • A. I. Panin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 714 - 715

17. Plant for surfacing and trueing the support rollers of rotary kilns

    • N. I. Kachura
    • E. A. Chebanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 715 - 716

18. Book reviews

    • M. I. Borisov

    BookReview Pages: 717 - 717

19. Towards a successful completion of the plan for the year

    Report Pages: 721 - 722

20. The work methods of a leading excavator team

    • V. N. Eryutin

    Announcement Pages: 723 - 724

21. Periclase slabs for the slide gates of ladles

    • D. I. Gavrish
    • B. N. Voevodin
    • V. S. Korshunov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 725 - 728

22. Utilizing the dust from rotary kilns

    • S. A. Fleer
    • T. V. Kashkina
    • V. F. Lukashov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 728 - 731

23. Limit cards for materials

    • N. I. Sukhanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 732 - 733

24. Training production workers and improving their qualifications

    • D. F. Shedogubov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 734 - 735

25. The grain-size distribution of the raw magnesite and the rotary speed of the kiln as factors in the kiln performance and the quality of the powder

    • K. V. Simonov
    • P. V. Cherepov
    • Yu. I. Savchenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 736 - 740

26. Utilization of secondary energy resources in tunnel kilns

    • V. G. Sivash
    • E. A. Kuznetsova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 740 - 742

27. Increasing the wear resistance of the blades of turret presses

    • A. Ya. Shvartser
    • V. M. Bandolin
    • S. Z. Klibanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 743 - 746

28. The wear of refractories of a fused periclase-chromite material in equipment for the batchwise vacuum refining of steel

    • G. I. Kuznetsov
    • A. B. Antipova
    • K. V. Simonov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 752

29. Impregnation of the intermediate product reduces the shrinkage and deformation of corundum ceramics

    • I. G. Orlova
    • L. A. Dergaputskaya
    • I. S. Kainarskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 753 - 757

30. The creep and long-term strength of alumina ceramics

    • E. S. Lukin
    • É. P. Sysoev
    • D. N. Poluboyarinov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 757 - 760

31. The influence of Al₂O₃ and Fe₂O₃ on the disparity between the measured density and degree of quartz regeneration in fired specimens of Ovruch quartzites

    • V. D. Tsigler
    • I. F. Usatikov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 760 - 763

32. The wetting of refractories of the MgO-Al₂O₃-ZrO₂ system with metal melts

    • O. B. Kozlova
    • S. A. Suvorov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 763 - 767

33. Gas emanations from periclase heated in vacuo

    • I. A. Levina
    • M. N. Kovalev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 767 - 769

34. Improved subassembly units for rotary kilns

    • V. V. Zaitsev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 770 - 771

35. In the refractories sections of the scientific-technical council of the ussr ministry of ferrous metallurgy and the scientific-technical society of ferrous metallurgy

    • E. B. Nefedkina

    Report Pages: 772 - 774