1. Congratulations

   Announcement Pages: 1155 - 1155

2. Yurii Denisovich Semchikov (on his 70th birthday)

   Personalia Pages: 1156 - 1156

3. One-pot high-temperature synthesis of polyimides in molten benzoic acid: Kinetics of reactions modeling stages of polycondensation and cyclization

   • A. A. Kuznetsov
   • A. Yu. Tsegel’skaya
   • P. V. Buzin

   Synthesis, Polymerization Pages: 1157 - 1164

4. Polymer materials based on ethylene copolymers with substituted norbornene

   • I. N. Meshkova
   • V. G. Grinev
   • L. A. Novokshonova

   Synthesis, Polymerization Pages: 1165 - 1172

5. Self-organizing cyclolinear methylcyclohexasiloxane polymers carrying reactive vinyl groups

   • N. N. Makarova
   • Ya. V. Zubavichus
   • T. V. Vlasova

   Chemical Transformations Pages: 1173 - 1182

6. Residual strain recovery, molecular mobility, and plasticity of solid aromatic copolyesters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid with poly(ethylene terephthalate)

   • S. N. Rudnev
   • O. B. Salamatina
   • E. F. Oleinik

   Structure, Properties Pages: 1183 - 1197

7. Visualization of structural rearrangements responsible for temperature-induced shrinkage of amorphous polycarbonate after its deformation at different conditions

   • A. L. Volynskii
   • T. E. Grokhovskaya
   • N. F. Bakeev

   Structure, Properties Pages: 1198 - 1209

8. New information concerning spontaneous elongation of acetate fibers

   • A. B. Shipovskaya
   • G. N. Timofeeva

   Structure, Properties Pages: 1210 - 1217

9. The effect of dynamic vulcanization on the properties of polymer-elastomer blends containing crumb rubber

   • O. V. Dementienko
   • O. P. Kuznetsova
   • E. V. Prut

   Structure, Properties Pages: 1218 - 1225

10. Structure and permeability of fluoroplastic membranes cast from polymer-solvent-precipitator ternary systems

    • A. V. Bil’dyukevich
    • T. M. Ermolinskaya
    • L. A. Fen’ko

    Membranes Pages: 1226 - 1232

11. Comb macromolecules with attracting functional groups in side chains

    • O. S. Pevnaya
    • E. Yu. Kramarenko
    • A. R. Khokhlov

    Theory Pages: 1233 - 1241