Special issue

A.M. Prokhorov, M.A. Markov “To the Editorial Staff of the journal ’Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk’” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 373–373 (1978)

“From the editors” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 374–375 (1978)

Personalia

B.V. Deryagin “Petr Petrovich Lazarev (on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 376–380 (1978)

Reviews of topical problems

V.L. Ginzburg, G.F. Zharkov “Thermoelectric effects in superconductors” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 381–404 (1978)

V.S. Letokhov “Selective action of laser radiation on matter” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 405–428 (1978)

A.S. Monin “On the nature of turbulence” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 429–442 (1978)

M.I. Rabinovich “Stochastic self-oscillations and turbulence” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 443–469 (1978)

Physics of our days

D.A. Kirzhnits “Superconductivity and elementary particles” Sov. Phys. Usp. 21 470–486 (1978)