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[For the entire collection, see Zbl 0878.00015.] The author considers the motion of a viscous gas under the condition that the pressure function is constant. He confines himself to spherically symmetric flows. If \(\rho\) denotes the pressure and \(u\) is the velocity of the flow then \(\rho\) and \(u\) satisfy the following generalized system of Burgers equations: \[ \rho_t + \frac{1}{x^2}\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(x^2\rho u) = 0, \qquad \rho (u_t + uu_x) = \mu \frac{\partial} {\partial x}\left(\frac{1}{x^2}\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(x^2u)\right), \] where \(x\in (0,1)\) and \(\mu = \text{const}\) is the viscosity coefficient. The aim of the article is to prove global existence for solutions \((u,\rho)\) to the initial-boundary value problem for the system under some reasonable assumption on the data. In the proof, the well-known result by V. A. Solonnikov about local-in-time solvability of initial-boundary value problems for the equations of compressible viscous fluid is used together with the method of Lagrangian coordinates. By using this nonlocal coordinate transformation, the author obtains a priori estimates for \((u,\rho)\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0878.00015].