Abstract
The editors, guest editors, and advisory board members of Bulletin of Karaganda University, Chemistry Series decided to dedicate this Special Issue to the 90th anniversary of Doctor of chemical sciences, Profes-sor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences Esen Abikenovich Bekturov who has made an out-standing contribution to physical chemistry of polymers. In the frame of the Special Issue entitled: “Specialty Polymers in Oil Industry, Bio-, Nanotechnology and Medicine” colleagues from China, Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Syria, UK, USA, and Uzbekistan share their research with readers of the journal.