This WRC Bulletin is the final report on a project initiated to integrate the technical information generated in the USSR on residual stresses and distortion in welded structures. The document is devoted to - experimental methods of studying residual stresses and distortion in welds - control of residual stresses and distortion in welded structures - residual stresses and distortion in circular welds - transverse shrinkage - angular distortion The report provides a brief explanation of the Soviet alloys referred to in the report and includes a References section which lists 886 publications@ issued mainly in the former USSR@ relating to the areas covered in the Bulletin. The project from which this Bulletin stems was a cooperative effort of MIT and the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute@ Kiev@ and was cooperatively funded by WRC and AWS. The publication of this Bulletin - WRC Bulletin No. 388 was sponsored by WRC