Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-123) and index.
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Introduction -- History of the problem -- Discovery of the influence of a superconducting transition on the macroscopic characteristics of plastic deformation -- Basic experimental characteristics of the effect -- Effect of a superconducting transition on deformation twinning -- Correlation between the characteristics of the effect and the superconducting properties -- Basic theoretical concepts of the influence of a superconducting transition on the plasticity -- Direct experiments -- New method for studying the mechanisms of low-temperature plasticity -- Applied aspects -- Experiments on HTSC -- Conclusions.