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The author studies or applies character sums of three kind: sums over primes, or over shifted primes, or over shifted squares. In particular, a new estimate is obtained for sums of the second type. For simplicity, we formulate the result for a primitive character \(\chi \pmod{q}\). Let \(\ell \) be any natural number. Then, for \(x\geq q\) and \(q\) sufficiently large, we have \[ \Biggl| \sum_{n\leq x}\chi (p-\ell)\Biggr| \leq x (\log x)^5\tau (q)\biggl(\sqrt{(1/q)+(q/x)\tau ^2(q)}+x^{-1/6}\tau (q)\biggr), \] where \(p\) runs over primes and \(\tau (q)\) is the usual divisor function. The character sum estimates are applied to sums of two primes, or to numbers of the form \(p+m^2\), in arithmetic progressions. The respective asymptotic formulae for the number of such numbers not exceeding \(x\) and lying in a progression modulo \(D\) are nontrivial for \(x\geq D^{3/2+\varepsilon}\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0833.00028].