On sliding of a puck

Aleksandr Yul’evich Ishlinsky liked to consider a problem with some “special thrill” at the end of the Seminar meeting of the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. For example, in 1978 he asked the author of this paper to describe the process of sliding of a rotating hockey puck on ice. Somewhat later, on such a seminar, the author made his report and demonstrated the experimental results, which was approved by Aleksandr Yul’evich. But the small paper on this topic, delivered to the journal “Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta,” was published only in 1981 [1] thanks to the support of Valentin Vitalievich Rumyantsev. The author thanks the Editorial Board of this journal for the possibility of discussing one of “Ishlinsky’s problems” once again.