Mainly reporting results obtained by him and his Russian research group, Olemskoi explores peculiarities in the behavior of statistical ensembles of atoms in the condensed state that make ideas like phonon conception either inapplicable or in need of some modification. He discusses phase transitions, the theory of condensed matter structure rearrangement, defects of crystal structure, the synergetics of the new phase macrostructure evolution, the supersymmetric theory of time-space evolution, and the theory of stochastic systems with singular multiplicative noise.