The problem of thermoelasticity in terms of stresses for an inhomogeneous hollow long cylinder with an arbitrary dependence of the physicomechanical characteristics of the material on the radial coordinate is reduced to the solution of a Fredholm equation of the second kind for radial stress. We obtain this equation by direct integration of the equations of equilibrium and continuity and solve it by reducing to a system of algebraic equations. The results of calculations are compared with the known exact solutions of the problem of thermoelasticity for individual dependences of the characteristics of the material on the radial coordinate. We determine the characteristics of materials, the temperature field, and loading guaranteeing the equality of the radial stress in the cylinder to zero.In recent years, the number of investigations of the stress-strain state of bodies of simple shape made of functionally gradient materials has increased, which is explained by their intensification of their practical application [8][9][10]. These problems are reduced to the solution of differential equations with variable coefficients [3]. Among numerous works, semianalytic methods that enable one to write approximate formulas for the determination of the stress-strain state in these bodies occupy an especially important place. This strongly increases the efficiency of solution of inverse problems of thermoelasticity obtained as a result of the solution of problems of control over the heating of bodies optimal in terms of speed under the restrictions imposed on stresses or temperature and the problems of identification of temperature, stresses, and strains according to the data obtained on a part of the surface [2, 7].As one of the methods revealing its high efficiency in the investigation of the thermal stressed state of thermosensitive bodies and bodies made of functionally gradient materials, we can mention the method of direct integration of the equations of motion and integrity in stresses with subsequent reduction of the corresponding problem of thermoelasticity to a set of integral equations and integral conditions [3][4][5]10]. In this case, we arrive at the problem of choosing determining stresses for which we construct the corresponding integral equations [6].For the determination of the thermal stressed state of a long hollow cylinder whose characteristics depend on the radial coordinate and/or a thermosensitive cylinder under the action of constant pressures upon its bounding surfaces and known mass forces and temperature distributions depending on the radial coordinate and, possibly, on time (as a parameter), we construct a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind in which the boundary conditions are also taken into account. Unlike the previous works [3,4,10], where the sum of the radial and circumferential stresses was chosen as determining stresses, in the present work, we choose the radial stresses as determining.