Reviews of topical problems

S.V. Lebedev, A.I. Savvatimskii “Metals during rapid heating by dense currents” Sov. Phys. Usp. 27 749–771 (1984)

I.M. Frank “Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation for electric and magnetic multipoles” Sov. Phys. Usp. 27 772–785 (1984)

From the current literature

A.D. Dolgov “The magnetic monopole after its jubilee” Sov. Phys. Usp. 27 786–789 (1984)

From the history of physics

É.I. Rashba “The prediction of excitons (On the 90th birthday of Ya. I. Frenkel’)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 27 790–796 (1984)