Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 200–207, March–April, 1962
A brief exposition of a report to the all-Union seminar on the methods of preparation, physical properties, and electronic structure of refractory metals, their compounds, and alloys (Kiev. April 24, 1961).
The work was done jointly, according to a single plan, by co-workers of INKh SO, Acad. Sci. USSR, IMSS, Acad. Sci., UkrSSR, and the K. D. Ushinskii Odessa Pedagogical Institute.