ABSTRACT
Especially Important and Interesting? ...................... 3 Preamble ................ . ................. .... . ...... . . ......... 3 Introduction .. ......... ..... .... . ................................ 6 List of 'Especially Important and Interesting Problems' (1995) .. 11 Macrophysics ...................... . .. . ...... . . . ... .. .... . ...... 12 1. Controlled Nuclear Fusion ..... . ...... .. .. .................... 12 2. High-Temperature Superconductivity. Superdiamagnetism . . .. 18 3. New Substances (Production of Metallic Hydrogen and Some Other New Materials) ..................................... . ..... 25 4. Some Problems of Solid-State Physics ......... .......... .. ... 27 5. Phase Transitions of the Second Order and Similar Transitions (Critical Phenomena). Interesting Examples of Such Transitions .. .... ...... ..... ...... .... ... ... ................. ... 29 6. Physics of Surfaces ........ ..... . .. . .. . ....................... 35 7. Liquid Crystals. Very Large Molecules. Fullerenes ............ 37 8. Matter in Super high Magnetic Fields ................ .... ..... 39 9. X-ray Lasers, Grasers, and New Superpowerful Lasers ........ 40 10. Strongly Nonlinear Phenomena (Nonlinear Physics). Solitons, Chaos. Strange Attractors ............................. 45 11. Superheavy Nuclei (Far Transuranic Elements). Exotic
