An international seminar on problems of modem materials science held i
n April 1997 in Dnepropetrovsk was dedicated to the memory of Academic
ian K. F. Starodubov. His ideas are now implemented by his students an
d followers. One of them is V. I. Bol'shakov, Doctor of Engineering, m
ember of the International Engineering Academy, the Building Academy o
f Ukraine, and the Academy of Higher Education, Honored Scientist and
Engineer of Ukraine, rector of the Dnieper State Academy of Building a
nd Architecture, and well-known specialist in the physical metallurgy
of structural steels. He celebrated his 50th anniversary in 1996. We p
resent an article by V. I. Bol'shakov devoted to the effect of the fin
al rolling temperature and the cooling conditions on the mechanical pr
operties of heat-treated high-strength low-alloy steels.