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Abstract. To solve problems of Gilbert Baumslag and Hanna Neumann, posed in the 1960's, we construct a nontrivial variety of groups all of whose noncyclic free groups are non-hopfian.

To solve a number of problems on varieties of groups, stated by Kleiman, Kuznetsov, Ol'shanskii, Shmel'kin in the 1970's and 1980's, we construct continuously many varieties of groups in which all periodic groups are abelian and whose pairwise intersections are the variety of all abelian groups.

A group variety defined by one semigroup law in two variables is constructed and it is proved that its free group is not a periodic extension of a locally soluble group.

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