Аннотация:Classical Cepheids are pulsating supergiants in the main instability strip. In the course of evolution, they move across the
instability strip, and their periods vary. Studying their period variations for a time span of several decades, it is possible to
determine the rate of secular period increase or decrease, identify the number of instability strip crossing, and thus improve
the period–luminosity relation. Special tests are used to determine whether the observed period variation is real or caused
by random errors.