Foreword

“The XXVII Congress of the CPSU and the tasks for Soviet science” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 123–125 (1986)

Reviews of topical problems

V.G. Grishin “Hadronization of quarks and gluons into hadron jets at high energies” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 126–165 (1986)

E.M. Dianov, A.M. Prokhorov “Lasers and fiber optics” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 166–178 (1986)

N.G. Basov “Quantum electronics at the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (FIAN) [Text of an address presented March 21, 1985 at the International Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO ’85) Baltimore, USA, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of quantum electronics]” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 179–185 (1986)

S.S. Rozhkov “Dynamics of the order parameter of superfluid phases of helium-3” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 186–198 (1986)

From the current literature

A.I. Golovashkin “Superconductors with unusual properties and possibilities of increasing the critical temperature” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 199–209 (1986)

Meetings and conferences

S.P. Kapitsa, A.B. Kurepin “International seminar on semiclassical description of atomic and nuclear collisions (Held at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 24-31 March 1985)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 210–211 (1986)

Personalia

V.L. Ginzburg, V.P. Glushko, A.M. Dykhne, B.G. Konopel’chenko, E.M. Lifshitz, M.A. Markov, A.Z. Patashinskii, V.L. Pokrovskii, M.P. Ryutova, A.N. Skrinskii, G.I. Surdutovich, E.L. Feinberg, B.V. Chirikov “Yurii Borisovich Rumer (Obituary)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 212–213 (1986)