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We comment on a problem of Mazur from ``The Scottish Book" concerning second partial derivatives. We prove that if a function f(x,y) of real variables defined on a rectangle has continuous derivative with respect to y and for almost all y the function $F_{y}(x): = f'_{y}(x,y)$ has finite variation, then almost everywhere on the rectangle the partial derivative $f''_{yx}$ exists. We construct a separately twice differentiable function whose partial derivative $f'_{x}$ is discontinuous with respect to the second variable on a set of positive measure. This solves the Mazur problem in the negative.