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The results of a detailed analysis of SMA, VLA, and IRAM observations of the region of massive star formation S255N in CO(2---1), \nh, \nhh, \co and some other lines is presented. Combining interferometer and single-dish data has enabled a more detailed investigation of the gas kinematics in the moleclar core on various spatial scales. There are no signs of rotation or isotropic compression on the scale of the region as whole. The largest fragments of gas ($\approx$0.3 pc) are located near the boundary of the regions of ionized hydrogen S255 and S257. Some smaller-scale fragments are associated with protostellar clumps. The kinetic temperatures of these fragments lie in the range 10---80 K. A circumstellar torus with inner radius R$_{in}$ $\approx$ 8000 AU and outer radius R$_{out}$ 12 000 AU has been detected around the clump SMA1. The rotation profile indicates the existence of a central object with mass $\approx$ 8.5/ sin 2 (i) M$_\odot$ . SMA1 is resolved into two clumps, SMA1---NE and SMA1---SE, whose temperatures are $\approx$150 K and $\approx$25 K, respectively. To all appearances, the torus is involved in the accretion of surrounding gas onto the two protostellar clumps.

The results of SEST millimeter observations of the molecular cloud G345.01+1.79 are presented. Spectra of CH3OH, SO2, SiO, HCO+, C18O, C33S, C34S, HCN, and DCN lines have been obtained. Mapping of the cloud in CH3OH, SiO, and C34S lines indicates that the maximum integrated intensity in the SiO and C34S lines and in low-excitation CH3OH transitions coincide with the northern group of methanol masers, while the corresponding maximum for high-excitation CH3OH transitions coincides with the southern methanol-maser group. The physical parameters are estimated from the quasi-thermal CH3OH lines under the large-velocity-gradient approximation, and their distribution on the sky derived. The density and temperature are higher toward the southern group of methanol masers than in the northern group. This may indicate that star formation is in an earlier stage of evolution in the northern than toward the southern group. A maser component can be distinguished in 14 (of 71) CH3OH lines. We have detected for the first time weak, probably maser, emission in the CH3OH lines at 148.11, 231.28, 165.05, 165.06, and 165.07 GHz. A blue wing is clearly visible in the CH3OH, SiO, C18O, and SO2 lines. The emission in this wing is probably associated with a compact source whose velocity is characteristic of the CH3OH maser emission in the southern group of masers.

Observations of the molecular cloud G1.6-0.025 in the 2K-1K and J0-J−1E series and 5−1-40E line of CH3OH, the (2-1) and (3-2) lines of SiO, and the 7−7-6−6 line of HNCO are described. Maps of the previously observed extended cloud with Vlsr∼50 km/s and high-velocity clump with Vlsr∼160 km/s, as well as a newly detected clump with Vlsr∼0 km/s, have been obtained. The extended cloud and high-velocity clump have a nonuniform structure. The linewidths associated with all the objects are between 20 and 35 km/s, as is typical of clouds of the Galactic center. In some directions, emission at velocities from 40 to 160 km/s and from −10 to +75 km/s is observed at the clump boundaries, testifying to a connection between the extended cloud and the high-velocity clump and clump at Vlsr∼0 km/s. Compact maser sources are probaby contributing appreciably to the emission of the extended cloud in the 5−1-40E CH3OH line. Non-LTE modeling of the methanol emission shows that the extended cloud and high-velocity clump have a relatively low hydrogen density (