[Efficiency of the use of locomotive cab heating systems].

The paper describes the efficiency of the heating, thermal insulating, and air-tightness systems in the cabs of a railway rolling stock.

[New approaches to hygienic assessment of machines used in the construction of railways].

The stock of railway machines has been greatly replaced by that new-generation ones that have a high capacity and can themselves move at high speeds. This changes the working conditions of the staff and the conditions of their driving. The new conditions promotes the development of new standard requirements and the methods of tests and assessing the indices of unfavorable working conditions.

[Experience in hygienic and ergonomic design of an inter-regional high-speed electric train "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.