Includes: protocols and shorthand reports of the Common sessions (Obstchie sobraniya) and of the conferences of the Department Bureau; shorthand reports of the scientific sessions on the problems of sulphuruous and high-sulphuruous petroleum purification and use; on powerful turbines; on noises in heating physics and in theoretical and applied mechanics; on mathematical modeling methods in the energetics; on steam-electric-turbine plants; on the use of heated water from atomic electric power stations and thermoelectric power stations in the national economy, on problems of construction of high reliable steam-generators for atomic electric power stations, and others; accounts of scientific and administrative activity of the Department; accounts of the effectiveness of the international scientific relations of the Department institutions; individual accounts to the Department of scientific activity of full members and corresponding members of the Academy; reports (spravki) of the Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR on the development of electrophysics and electrotechnology from the point of view of the tasks of Big Energetics Program (1973) and reports of the scientific organizations of the Department on the most important scientific and technological achievements of energetics during the years 1976 through 1980; theses of accounts to the Department Bureau; materials of the complex examinations of the activity of Department organizations, such as the Department for the Energetics of Kol'skii branch of the Academy, the Siberian Energetic Institute of the Siberian Department of the Academy, the Department for the Physical and Engineering Problems of Energetics of the Ural Scientific Centre of the Academy, the Institute for the High Temperature, the Institute for the Physical and Technological Problems of Energetics in North Regions of the Yakut Branch of the Siberian Department of the Academy, among others.