[Experience in hygienic and ergonomic design of an inter-regional high-speed electric train "Sokol"]. / Opyt gigienicheskogo i érgonomicheskogo proektirovaniia mezhregional'nogo vysokoskorostnogo élektropoezda "Sokol".

The fundamental hygienic principles in the design of a high-speed Sokol electric train and its ergonometric approach cause one to anticipate a new rolling stock with high convenience for passengers, which will be an analogue of the world's best ones to appear.

[Hygienic assessment of new technology of tank cars]. / Gigienicheskaia otsenka novoi tekhnologii obrabotki zheleznodorozhnykh tsistern.

A washing and steaming station built by Finnish specialists in 1997 operates at the Ryazan petroleum processing plant. The process is completely automatic and hermetic, excludes the workers' contact with harmful industrial factors. There is a whole set of special clothes and individual protective means. The plant's gas-fighting and rescue service monitors the air environment every 3 months. There is a closed rinsing water regeneration system at the plant.

[Progress and prospects in the development of catastrophe medicine in the prevention and cleaning up of accidents caused by hazardous cargo]. / Dostizheniia i perspektivy razvitiia meditsiny katastrof v profilaktike i likvidatsii avarii s perevozimymi opasnymi gruzami.

Progress in emergency medicine in the prevention and liquidation of hazardous cargo-induced accidents is analyzed. The results of development of theoretical aspects, search for adequate individual protective means and methods for chemical decontamination of hazardous cargo residues are summarized.

[The research achievements and prospects in the field of railroad medicine in providing traffic safety]. / Dostizheniia i perspektivy issledovanii v oblasti zheleznodorozhnoi meditsiny po obespecheniiu bezopasnosti dvizheniia.

Experience in ensuring safe traffic at the All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Hygiene is summarized. Various aspects of this line of activities, such as medicopsychological professional selection, medical examination of engine-drivers, training how to behave in emergency, etc., are considered. Some new medical problems in ensuring safe traffic are presented.

[Problems in improvement of work conditions in railroad transport]. / Problemy uluchsheniia uslovii truda na podvizhnom sostave i putevoi tekhnike.

Within a short period of time the temperature conditions have been improved at working places of locomotive drivers and their assistants, a new switchboard for locomotives developed, noise and vibration in cabins were reduced, etc. Hygienic problems associated with improvement of locomotives are supervised by the Ministry of Communications and by special commissions.

[Sanitary-hygienic regulations of the utilization of asbestos production waste in railway facilities]. / Sanitarno-gigienicheskaia reglamentatsiia ispol'zovaniia otkhodov asbestovogo proizvodstva v putevom khoziaistve.

The hazards of utilizing the asbestos production wastes in railway construction are analyzed. An increased risk of cancer development was observed only in groups exposed to asbestos in concentrations surpassing the maximal permissible level, as shown by mortality records. The authors come to a conclusion that the use of asbestos waste is permissible only on condition of strict adherence to sanitary regulations.

[Ergonomic improvement of control panel in modern locomotives]. / Ergonomicheskoe sovershenstvovanie pul'ta upravleniia sovremennogo lokomotiva.

Such matters as optimization of informational load, higher reliability of train driver's work in more speedy motion and increased complexity of transportation due to automated control systems necessitated creation of pioneering control panel for locomotive operations. Long-standing research defined psychologically rational algorithm of the driver's activities, designed form and organization of units within the control panel, precisely chose basic characteristics required for systems of informational view and control.

[Reasons for privileges for hard and hazardous work conditions in railway transport]. / Voprosy obosnovaniia l'got za tiazhelye i vrednye usloviia truda dlia professii zheleznodorozhnogo transporta.

Many railway occupations have special work conditions which considerably depend on peculiarities of work and therefore could not undergo hygienic regulation. The article gives examples of such occupations connected mostly with personal risk in railway traffic, marked work hardness, etc. Reasonable privileges and compensations are established for those occupations.

[Scientific bases of improving the regulations of hazardous cargo transportation]. / Nauchnye osnovy sovershenstvovaniia pravil perevozki opasnykh gruzov.

The authors report their experience on improvement of Rules for Transportation of Dangerous Load and related legal documents and recommendations. The materials necessitate systematic research in urgent medical care, transport hygiene, ecology and all fields forming basic science for improvement of Rules for Transportation of Dangerous Load. The article considers scientific and informational value of emergency cards escorting dangerous load (exemplified by high concentrations of hexamethylene diamine).

[Medical information system regarding the control of the results of the railroad accidents involving hazardous substances]. / Mediko-informatsionnoe obespechenie sistemy likvidatsii posledstvii avarii s opasnymi gruzami na zheleznodorozhnom transporte.

Medical and informational supply of the system liquidating the consequences of accidents concerning the dangerous railway goods was analysed. Emergency cards of dangerous railway goods were described as a new type of medical and technical information. 130 of such cards concerning 567 dangerous railway goods were published in 1984, additional prophylactic sections of emergency cards for 400 substances (goods) were published in 1991. Materials for 1,000 substances are prepared for publishing. Automatic system for information search was proved to have good prospects for the further development and putting into practice on railways.