Reviews of topical problems

E.G. Brovman, Yu.M. Kagan “Phonons in nontransition metals” 17 125–152 (1974)

M.I. Shliomis “Magnetic fluids” 17 153–169 (1974)

V.V. Shmidt, G.S. Mkrtchyan “Vortices in type-ll superconductors” 17 170–185 (1974)

A.M. Gal’per, V.G. Kirillov-Ugryumov, B.I. Luchkov “Observational gamma astronomy” 17 186–198 (1974)

A.P. Levanyuk, D.G. Sannikov “Improper ferroelectrics” 17 199–214 (1974)

B.N. Esel’son, M.I. Kaganov, É.Ya. Rudavskii, I.A. Serbin “’Sound’ in superfluid liquids” 17 215–238 (1974)

S.M. Osovets “Dynamic methods of confinement and stabilization of hot plasma” 17 239–262 (1974)

A.I. Vainshtein, I.B. Khriplovich “Renormalizable models of the electromagnetic and weak interactions” 17 263–275 (1974)

Personalia

S.S. Gershtein, I.I. Gurevich, V.S. Imshennik, I.D. Novikov, B.M. Pontekorvo, R.Z. Sagdeev “Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich (on his sixtieth birthday)” 17 276–282 (1974)

A.P. Aleksandrov, V.P. Dzhelepov, S.Ya. Nikitin, Yu.B. Khariton “Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov (obituary)” 17 283–285 (1974)

N.A. Neretina, V.I. Perevodchikov, A.S. Pokrovskaya-Soboleva, L.A. Sena, V.A. Fabrikant “Boris Nikolaevich Klyarfel’d (obituary)” 17 286–287 (1974)

Letters to the editors

A.A. Tyapkin “The first theoretical prediction of the radiation discovered by Vavilov and Cerenkov” 17 288–288 (1974)