An experimental investigation of magnetoelastic properties of the' bismuthcalcium-iron-vanadium garnet (BiCaNG) system is carried out in this paper. By that time these crystals a r e investigated in detail (1 to 4). which considerably simplifies the comprehension and interpretation of the obtained results. In the papers (3, 4) a number of investigations of the high-frequency and magnetic characteristics of these crystals were carried out by the ferromagnetic resonance method.Due t.0 the comparatively high Curie temperature , with relatively low magnetization and small width of ferromagnetic resonance line, the investigated BiCaIVG single crystals are widely applied a s apparatus elements operating in the low-frequency microwave range, and may be perspective a s magnetic memory elements (5). However, the magnetoelastic properties of the given crystals are. not yet investigated enough (3, 6).In this paper the temperature dependences of magnetostriction constants a r e measured by the resonance method for a number of compounds of the BiCaIVG system, and one-ion magnetoelastic coefficients a r e calculated from the obtained data.BiCaIV garnets are synthesized in a system of easily melted compounds with low temperature eutectics. Therefore their solid solutions may be directly obtained from the crystal-forming oxides. The growing was carried out by the crystallization method from the solution in a melt (7). The grown crystals had the general crystalchemical formulaThe crystal composition was estimated by X-ray diffraction analysis and was confirmed by magnetization measurements. From the grown crystals the samples were prepared in the form of globes with * 1 mm diameter. Their surface polishing -1 2