Central archives of the RSFSR in the 1920s: a new course of the management of the archival sphere, O.N. Kopylova, T.I. Khorkhordina

The main directions of the activity of the Central managerial body of archives headed by M.N. Pokrovsky (1920–1928) are reviewed.

Main administration of archives, Central archives of the RSFSR, Glavarkhiv, minutes of the meetings of the Board of GUAD–Centrarkhiv of the RSFSR, politicization of archives, staff redundancies, State archive of the Russian Federation, M.N. Pokrovsky

Saratov Scientific Archival Commission in 1917–1918, A.S. Mayorova

The article reveals the position and activities of the commission on the basis of its annual reports and other documents preserved in the state archive of the Saratov region.

reorganization and centralization of the archives in the Russian Federation, Saratov scientific archival commission, State archives of the Saratov region

Normative regulation of the conceptual apparatus in the field of electronic records management, V.F. Yankovaya

The main existing federal normative legal acts since 2002 containing the basic concept of «electronic document» are analyzed; tendencies of its development and terminological shortcomings are defined.

normative legal act, electronic document, document in electronic form, copy of the electronic document

Topical questions of development and improvement of archival legislation, M.V. Larin

The author touches upon the most pressing questions of the legal regulation of the archival sphere, requiring the priority attention of Rosarkhiv, and gives proposals for their solution.

archives, records management, archival legislation, archival fund, documentary fund, information society, digital economy, Federal archival agency

How the Archival Fund of the Moscow region is being digitized, P.M. Petrov

Tasks and process of realization of the project on digitization of documents and inventories of the Central state archives of the Moscow region within the regional state program «Effective power» for 2017–2021 are revealed.

digitization of archival documents, remote user access to archival documents of the Central state archive of Moscow region, the «Electronic archive» corporation

Industrial archives of the companies Siemens and Bayer: history and present times, M.A. Chichuga

The most important pages in the history of corporate archives and the directions of their activity are presented on the basis of foreign periodicals and Internet editions.

archive of an enterprise, industrial archive, company «Bayer», company «Siemens»

Regional history of the volunteer movement in the documents of the State archives of the Kursk region, N.I. Gorlova

The documents on the work of volunteers in the local state and public organizations of the Russian Empire, preserved in their archival funds, are presented.

archival fund, history of volunteer movement, charitable and voluntary state and public organizations, the first General census of the population of the Russian Empire, Kursk trusteeship of national sobriety, State archives of the Kursk region

The first circulars of the Eastern Department of OGPU in 1922–1923: Soviet counterintelligence and the «Eastern» vector of the Russian policy, Yu.N. Guseva

The documents compiled by J.H. Peters for Plenipotentiaries of the GPU in the regions, preserved in the form of copies in the Central archive of the FSB of Russia, are characterized.

orientalism, state-islamic relations, State political administration, United state political administration, Eastern department, Central archive of the FSB of Russia, J.H. Peters

Documents of the Russian archives on the final stage of the professional biography of the financier V. Tarnovsky, E.E. Nikolaeva, M.G. Nikolaev

The article presents the documents on personnel of the USSR State Bank from the Russian State Archive of the Economy, revealing the details of work of V.V. Tarnovsky in the late 1930–1940s.

monetary reform in the Soviet Union, the NEP, Siberian trade Bank, Russian commercial Bank, State Bank of the USSR, Russian state archive of the Economy, Department of written sources of the State Historical Museum, V.V. Tarnovsky

Archives of the Usolsky district municipal unit of the Irkutsk region, L.S. Margunova

The main stages of the history of the Usolsky district since the XVII century, the creation of the district archive in 1935, its transformation into the archival department of the municipal district administration in 2005 are marked out; the success of archivists in the collection, preservation and use of the documentary heritage of the district is shown.

acquisitions of the archive, use of archival documents, archival department of the municipal district administration of the Usolsky district municipal unit of the Irkutsk region

Sharlyk municipal archives of the Orenburg region, Yu.V. Baykova

The article elucidates the history and current state of the Sharlyk district, the activities of the archival department of the administration of the municipal unit the Sharlyk district of the Orenburg region.

acquisitions of the archive, use of archival documents, archival department of the administration of the municipal unit the Sharlyk district of the Orenburg region

«...From that moment the events developed inexorably right up to the disappearance of the left social revolutionaries from the political scene». Essay of Victor Serge «The execution of the German Ambassador count Mirbach (Moscow, July 6, 1918)», A.V. Gusev, Ya.V. Leontiev

The text of the essay preserved in the archive of Plekhanov's house of the Russian national library, based on the record of the conversation of its author, French-Russian journalist and writer V. Serge with the terrorist act performer Ya.G. Blyumkin is published for the first time.

Brest Peace, party of the left socialist-revolutionaries, murder of the German Ambassador V.Mirbach, house of Plekhanov of the National library, Ya.G. Blumkin, Victor Serge (V.L. Kibalchich), I.S. Knizhnik-Vetrov