1. A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

   Announcement Pages: 1103 - 1103

2. Awards of the motherland

   Announcement Pages: 1104 - 1108

3. Experience with and the effectiveness of automatic systems for control of loading-hauling operations during construction of the dam for Nurek hydroelectric plant

   • S. Ya. Lashchenov
   • V. I. Rymarevich
   • M. Yu. Gornshtein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1109 - 1114

4. Overflow road crossing across the Dnestr River at the construction site of the Dnestr hydrostation

   • B. D. Shmul'son

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1115 - 1119

5. Current requirements imposed on the contact of gravity and buttress dams with rock foundations

   • Yu. A. Fishman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1120 - 1125

6. Impulse technology for surface compaction of concrete mixes in construction of slope revetments

   • A. A. Afanas'ev
   • A. I. Boikov
   • V. I. Il'in

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1126 - 1129

7. Integral labor costs for substantiation of hydropower construction alternatives

   • B. L. Érlikhman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1130 - 1134

8. Deposition of sediments on thicket-covered flood plain

   • Yu. N. Sokolov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1135 - 1139

9. Embankment dams of Paz cascade of hydropower stations and some conclusions from their operational experience

   • D. M. Yashkul'

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1140 - 1148

10. Hydrodynamic pressures on walls of structural elements of a jet-type discharge-regulating valve

    • I. E. Mikhailov
    • V. I. Bobrov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1149 - 1154

11. At the world energy conference

    Report Pages: 1155 - 1155

12. Chronicles of construction and operation

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1156 - 1158

13. All-Union symposium “Numerical methods in hydraulics”

    • G. N. Gvazava

    Papers Pages: 1159 - 1160

14. Actual problems encountered in the 50-year development of water management and their coverage by the journal

    • A. B. Avakyan
    • S. P. Ovchinnikova
    • V. A. Sharapov

    Papers Pages: 1161 - 1167

15. The journal's role in disseminating information on certain promising designs of hydroelectric and tidal power plants

    • L. B. Bernshtein

    Papers Pages: 1168 - 1170

16. Letters from foreign readers

    Letter Pages: 1171 - 1171

17. Congratulations

    Announcement Pages: 1172 - 1172

18. Roller gates for closing large bays

    • A. O. Sudzilovskii
    • A. F. Gorbunov

    Papers Pages: 1173 - 1176

19. Determination of the coefficient of friction of cohesionless soils on polymer film facings of earth structures

    • V. P. Lysenko

    Papers Pages: 1177 - 1181

20. Use of the finite-element method in solving problems of hydrualics of open channels and structures

    • V. A. Bol'shakov
    • T. P. Kleshchevnikova

    Papers Pages: 1182 - 1186

21. Abstracts from foreign journals

    • E. S. Matveev

    Papers Pages: 1187 - 1194

22. 50th Anniversary of the Hydraulic Engineering Faculty of the V. V. Kuibyshev Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI)

    • V. Ya. Karelin

    Papers Pages: 1195 - 1197

23. Scientific-technical information of the VINITI in the hydropower field

    • N. P. Belousova
    • V. S. Veprintsev
    • T. M. Rumyantseva

    Papers Pages: 1198 - 1200

24. Scientific-technical creative work of the youth

    • A. A. Belyakov

    Papers Pages: 1201 - 1204

25. 70th Birthday of German Konstantinovich Sukhanov

    Papers Pages: 1205 - 1205

26. Congratulations

    Papers Pages: 1206 - 1206

27. Literature on hydraulic engineering, hydropower, and related fields published in 1978

    • L. I. Klevtsova

    Bibliography Pages: 1207 - 1211