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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.