Table of contents : List of Publications of M. S. Livšic -- Vortices of 2D Systems -- Realization and Factorization in Reproducing Kernel Pontryagin Spaces -- Models of Contractions Constructed from the Defect Function of Their Characteristic Functions -- Measure Schur Complements and Spectral Functions of Unitary Operators with Respect to Different Scales -- On the Second Order Interpolation for Rational Vector Functions -- Generalized Moments, Center-focus Conditions, and Compositions of Polynomials -- Inverse Spectral Problem for the Sturm-Liouville Operator with Eigenvalue Parameter Dependent Boundary Condition -- A Module Approach to Commutant Lifting on Kre?n Spaces -- On Dual Canonical Systems and Dual Matrix String Equations -- Angle between Subspaces of Analytic and Antianalytic Functions in Weighted L2 Spaces on the Boundary of a Multiply Connected Domain -- Bitangential Interpolation for Upper Triangular Operators with Infinitely Many Interpolation Nodes -- Some Applications of Operator-valued Herglotz Functions -- Analogues of a Theorem of Frostman on Linear Fractional Transformations of Inner Functions and the Typical Spectral Structure of Analytic Families of Weak Contractions -- Right and Left Joint System Representation of a Rational Matrix Function in General Position (System Representation Theory for Dummies) -- One-parameter Semigroups of Fractional-linear Transformations -- Scattering from an Impurity: Lax-Phillips Approach -- Spectral Theory of Wiener-Hopf Operators and Functional Model -- Operator Dilations with Prescribed Commutators -- Condition of Orthogonality of Spectral Matrix Function -- Functional Models of Linear Operators -- Non-self-adjoint Periodic Dirac Operators -- A Note on Hyponormal Operators Associated with Quadrature Domains -- Two Remarks on Fuchsian Groups of Widom Type -- A Functional Model for the Lie Algebra SL(2, ?) of Linear Non-self-adjoint Operators.