PART I FLOW AROUND BODIES MOVING IN A PLASMA: Brief description of some theoretical problems and experiments; Some remarks about conditions at the boundaries of bodies moving in plasmas; Disturbances of the plasma near fast-moving bodies; Disturbances of the plasma near quasi-stationary bodies; Scattering of radio waves in the wake of a fast-moving body; Some remarks about the excitation of waves and plasma instability near a fast-moving body. PART 2 WAVES AND OSCILLATIONS IN THE NEAR-EARTH AND INTERPLANETARY PLASMA: Introductory remarks; Results of studies of ELF waves; Results of studies of VLF waves; Results of studies of LF waves; Results of studies of HF waves; Energy densities of various types of waves.