Etudes on the Dynamics of Stellar Systems
  This arXiv submission is a translation of the Dr Sci Thesis by Prof Grigori
Kuzmin, written in Russian and defended in 1970. The Thesis based on Kuzmin's
papers was written in Russian and published in Tartu Observatory Publications
or Russian-language conference proceedings. But for the Thesis G. Kuzmin wrote
extras, which are published here for the first time. Most chapters of the
Thesis were translated in full. In some chapters, we used the English summaries
written by Kuzmin. We add as appendix English translations of three papers,
written by Kuzmin after the defence of the Thesis, one of them published here
also the first time. The Thesis consists of three parts. Part I is
"Gravitational potential and mass distribution of the Galaxy. The third
integral of stellar motion" and consists of 10 chapters. Part II is
"Spatio-kinematical structure of self-gravitating stationary stellar systems
and some general problems of dynamics of stellar systems" and consists of 6
chapters. Part III is "Time evolution of the structure of stellar systems. The
effect of irregular forces" and consists of 6 chapters. In Appendix, three
later articles were included. Present translation starts with the preface by
Prof. Jaan Einasto.
