The report gives an up-to-date account of active independent research tasks. These tasks fall into the following categories: solid state physics, metallurgy, electromagnetic interaction with atoms and molecules, intense radiation, smoke and fire, field theory, elementary particles, liquid state, superconductivity, applied mathematics and computer sciences, fluid flow theory, thermodynamics of high temperatures, high-speed gas flows, earth re-entry body problems, explosive chemistry, deflagration to detonation, properties of solids under explosive loading, ...