1. The Fourth All-Russia Kargin Conference “Polymer Science in the 21th Century” (On the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.A. Kargin)

   Announcement Pages: 1243 - 1243

2. Reminiscences about the master

   • N. A. Platé

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1244 - 1246

3. Modification of solids with polymer nanolayers as a process for manufacture of novel biomaterials

   • V. P. Zubov
   • D. V. Kapustin
   • M. R. Muidinov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1247 - 1264

4. Structural approach to the study of deformation mechanism of amorphous polymers

   • A. L. Volynskii
   • A. I. Kulebyakina
   • N. F. Bakeev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1265 - 1283

5. Specifics of polymerization of trimethyl(methacryloyloxyethyl)ammonium methyl sulfate in a sodium dodecyl sulfate solution and the properties of resultant complexes

   • Yu. V. Shulevich
   • O. Yu. Kovaleva
   • I. A. Novakov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1284 - 1289

6. A fluorescent method based on the competitive displacement of intercalated dyes for the study of DNA polyelectrolyte complexes: Advantages and prospects

   • M. V. Zhiryakova
   • V. A. Izumrudov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1290 - 1301

7. Evolution in concepts concerning the mechanism of plasticity in solid polymers after the 1950s

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

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1302 - 1327

8. Spatial self-organization of comb macromolecules

   • A. V. Subbotin
   • A. N. Semenov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1328 - 1357

9. Rheological properties of solutions and gels of combined systems hydrophobically modified polyacrylamides-new viscoelastic cationic surfactants

   • L. Z. Rogovina
   • V. G. Vasil’ev
   • A. R. Khokhlov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1358 - 1365

10. Phase transitions in paraffins, n-alkane alcohols, and α,ω-alkane diols with different chain lengths

    • V. M. Egorov
    • V. A. Marikhin
    • L. P. Myasnikova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1366 - 1376