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The viscoelastic system (1): \(v_t -u_x =0\), \(u_t +p_x =0\), \((p+Ev)_t =-\frac{p-p_R (v)}{\tau}\) is considered, where \(v\) is the strain, \(-p\) is the stress, \(u\) is related to the particle velocity, the constant \(E\) is the Young's modulus, and \(\tau\) is the relaxation time. This hyperbolic system is a regularization of the equations (2): \(v_t -u_x =0\), \(u_t +p_R (v)_x =0\), which form a mixed-type system when \(p_R (v)\) is not monotone and which can be obtained formally from (1) by the limit \(\tau \to 0 \). Under the assumption that \(0<\sigma < E^{1/2}\), the existence and uniqueness of traveling wave solutions \(S (\xi)=(u(\xi),v(\xi),p(\xi))\), \(\xi =(x-\sigma t)/t\), is proved with \(S(\pm\infty)=(u^{\pm },v^{\pm },p_R ^{\pm})\), where \((\sigma ,u^- ,v^- ,u^+ ,v^+)\) is the shock discontinuity of weak solutions of (2) satisfying the Rankine-Hugoniot and entropy conditions. The global unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for system (1) is proved for the initial data which are small perturbations of the traveling wave solution \(S(\frac{x-\sigma t}{\tau})\) with \(t=0\). It is also proved that the solution of the Cauchy problem converges asymptotically to \(S(\frac{x-\sigma t}{\tau})\) with \(t=0\) in the \(H^1\)-norm as \(t\to \infty\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0915.00067].