Information about the preparation of a seminar dedicated to the development of the basics of a future system programming language; abstracts are included.

Asking for consent to be an opponent for the author’s postgraduate student’s dissertation; the dissertation’s subject is briefly outlined.

Reply to Ershov’s critical remarks concerning the received notification and official invitation to take part in the all-Union seminar on CAM software.

Notifying that rector of the Novosibirsk state university has confirmed the new body of the Scientific Council of the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in view of termination of the three-year term (rector’s order in writing is enclosed)

Request to give the opinion on advisability of publishing the paper by S.Ya. Berkovitch in “Automatics and Telemechanics” journal. Ershov’s notes relative to this paper.

Informing of the time and location of E.Z. Liybimskiy’s dissertation defense for which Ershov has been appointed an official opponent.

Informing of the time and location of S.Kh. Bychvarov dissertation defense for which Ershov has been appointed an official opponent.

Request to set a convenient date for the author’s visit to Akademgorodok.

Informing that traveling funds are exhausted

Informing of sending to Ershov as a member of the Soviet side of the Problem Commission on International Cooperation the protocol of the meeting of socialist countries’ Academies of Sciences representatives. Request to inform of the possibility of participation of the USSR SBAS institutes in the activities planned within multilateral cooperation in order to include it in the USSR AS plan.

Invitation to take part in the seminar held by the Technical Committee on Software “Spoken languages and their implementation”. Registration form is included.

Information from B.A. Zagatsky

Discussion of the problem whether or not to copy the foreign journals’ tables of contents printed on colored paper because the copies come in indistinct

Request to re-read the paper by L.Ya. Karpman “Program optimization for the close-to-input language level”.

Confirming the interest in establishing cooperation in the language programming problems between the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and proper USSR AS institutions.

The author shares his Japanese impressions and apologizes to Ershov for not being able to fulfill his request for slide copies properly.

about personal problems and possible visit to Novosibirsk; about thesis defending; about current scientific matters.

Request to send the proof sheets of the article “The placing function” urgently.

Information about two educational devices demonstrated to Ershov during his visit to the Crimea and the address for placing the order.