The second edition of the multi-volume reference manual "Mechanisms in Modern Technology" is published after the death of the author. Hero of Socialist Labor, Academician Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevsky, the largest Soviet scientist and prominent public figure, died on September 21, 1977. This edition is slightly different from the previous. In accordance with the intention and . and . In the book, they have made a number of changes. The edition will consist of seven volumes instead of five, with each volume containing reference tables. The number of described mechanisms will be slightly reduced due to the removal of mechanisms that differ from other only insignificant structural details.