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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0727.00010.] This lecture summarizes the authors' work on this subject. A locally Killing-transversally symmetric space (locally KTS-space) is a Riemannian manifold (M,g) admitting a unit Killing vector field \(\xi\) such that for all \(m\in M\) the reflection \(s_ m\) with respect to the flow line through m is an isometry. If \((M,g)\) is a Riemannian manifold and \(\xi\) a non-vanishing complete Killing vector field with dual 1-form \(\eta\), \((M,g,\xi)\) is a globally Killing-transversally symmetric space (KTS- space) if for every \(m\in M\) there exists a global isometry \(s_ m\) whose differential at \(m\) is \(-l_ m+2\eta_ m\otimes \xi_ m\). Among the results is the fact that a complete, connected, simply connected locally KTS-space is a KTS-space; it is also a naturally reductive homogeneous space. In the analytic case a Riemannian manifold with a unit Killing vector field \(X\) is a locally KTS-space if and only if \(R_{XYX\xi}=0\) and \(( \nabla_ XR)_{XYXY}=0\) for all \(X\), \(Y\) orthogonal to \(\xi\). An irreducible locally symmetric space with a unit Killing vector field is a locally KTS-space if and only if it is locally isometric to an odd-dimensional sphere. Many examples are given including classifications of complete, connected, simply connected KTS-spaces in dimensions 3 and 4. In dimension 3 these are \(S^ 3\), \(E^ 3\), \(S^ 2 \times E^ 1\), \(H^ 2\times E^ 1\), the Lie groups \(SU(2)\) and the universal covering of \(SL(2,\mathbb{R})\) with a suitable left invariant metric, and the Heisenberg group with any left invariant metric. In dimension 4 we have \(H^ 3\times E^ 1\) and the products of the 3-dimensional example just mentioned and \(E^ 1\).