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By a stationary Venttsel' problem the author means the boundary value problem for a second-order elliptic equation in which the higher-order terms in the boundary operator constitute an elliptic operator with respect to the tangent derivatives. In the article under review, equations are assumed to be uniformly elliptic and a boundary operator degenerates. The first-order terms occurring in the boundary condition constitute a nondegenerate nontangential operator. The main attention is paid to estimates for the maximum and Hölder norms of the tangent gradient of a solution to this problem. These estimates and available results imply estimates for the total gradient in the domain. The article consists of two parts. The first is devoted to completely nonlinear elliptic equations of the form \[ F(x,u,Du,D^2u)=0,\quad x\in \Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^n, \] with \(Du\) the gradient of \(u\) and \(D^2\) the vector of the second derivatives of \(u\). The boundary condition is as follows: \[ G(x,u,Du,d^2u)|_{\partial \Omega}=0. \] It is assumed that \[ G(x,u,Du,d^2u)=\tau^2(x)G_1(x,u,du,d^2u)+ G_{2}(x,u,Du), \] where \(G_1\) is a second-order elliptic operator with respect to the tangent derivatives \(\{d_i\}\), \(du\) and \(d^2u\) are the tangent gradient and the vector of the second tangent derivatives, and the function \(\tau\) can vanish on \(\partial \Omega\). It is assumed that a solution belongs to the class \(C^3(\overline{\Omega})\). The second part is devoted to quasilinear equations of the form \[ \sum_{i,j=1}^{n} a_{i,j}(x,u,Du)D^iD^ju + a(x,u,Du)=0. \] The corresponding boundary condition can be written as follows: \[ \Biggl(\tau^2(x)\biggl(\sum_{i,j=1}^{n-1} \alpha_{i,j}(x,u,du)d^id^ju + \alpha_{1}(x,u,du)\biggr)+ \alpha_{2}(x,u,Du)\Biggr)\Biggr|_{\partial \Omega}=0. \] In this case, the estimates obtained are for solutions in the class \(C^2(\overline{\Omega})\).