Soviet investigations of the mechanics of lunar soils

A. P. Vinogradov, "Preliminary data on lunar soil brought back by the automatic probe Luna XVI," in: Current Views Concerning the Moon [in Russian], Nauka (1972).

A. P. Vinogradov, "Soils of lunar mountains," Pravda, No. 125 (19633), from May 4 (1972).

A. P. Vinogradov, Yu. A. Surkov, K. P. Florenskii, I. I. Cherkasov, and V. V. Shvarev, "Investigation of the lunar surface by the Soviet automatic probes Luna IX to Luna XIII," in: Physics of the Moon and Planets [in Russian], Nauka (1972).

M. P. Drozhzhina, V. V. Dymov, V. M. Krylov, V. V. Markachev, A. S. Silin, and V. V. Shvarev, "The TOR-1 device for investigating the engineering and physical properties of lunar soil," Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR,199, No. 5 (1971).

V. I. Druzhininskaya, V. V. Markachev, A. V. Semenov, Yu. A. Surkov, and I. I. Cherkasov, "Prelimiary results of investigating the mechanical properties of the lunar regolith," Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR,199, No. 6 (1971).

A. K. Leonovich, V. V. Gromov, A. V. Rybakov, V. K. Petrov, P. O. Pavlov, I. I. Cherkasov, and V. V. Shvarev, "Investigations of the mechanical properties of lunar soil by the self-propelled vehicle Lunokhod I," in: A Mobile Laboratory on the Moon, Lunokhod I [in Russian], Chap. 8, Nauka (1971).

V. S. Troitskii and T. V. Tikhonova, "Thermal radiation of the moon and the physical properties of the moon's upper cover," Izvestiya Vuzov, Radiofizika (1970).

K. P. Florenskii, "Structure of the surface layer of the moon according to new data," in: Problems of Geochemistry and Cosmology (International Geological Congress, 22nd Session) [in Russian], Nauka (1968).

I. I. Cherkasov, A. L. Kemurdzhian, L. N. Mikhailov, V. V. Mikheev, A. A. Morozov, A. A. Musatov, I. A. Savenko, M. I. Smorodinov, and V. V. Shvarev, "Determination of density and mechanical strength of the surface layer of lunar soil at the landing site of the automatic lunar probe Luna XIII," Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya,5, No. 5 (1967).

I. I. Cherkasov and V. V. Shvarev, Beginning of Lunar Soil Science [in Russian], Nauka (1971).