Part of a series dedicated to advanced composite materials research, development and usage in the former Soviet Union, this volume presents much information which has been classified until recently. This text forms a comprehensive treatise on the development, manufacture, testing and applications of a broad range of ceramic, glass ceramic and carbon matrix composite materials developed in the former Soviet Union. It provides background theory and extensive property data for each of these three classes of composite materials. The book should be of interest to materials science and engineering department libraries, materials scientists concerned with composites, researchers in composite materials, and senior undergraduates/graduates studying materials science/composites.