The pages of the history of formation of archives management in the province are covered with the involvement of sources from the State Archive of the Vologda region and the State Archive of the Russian Federation which were not previously used.

Organization of the description of documents and development of finding aids in the archive is covered on the basis of the archival fond of the Chancellery of TsGADA.

The main stages, problems and tools of regulation of records management by the archives management bodies in our country are distinguished.

The results of the survey of 247 museums of state and municipal educational organizations (schools, colleges, technical schools, universities) conducted by the Committee for archives in 2018 are summarized.

The results of the survey of emigrants from Russia (university graduates) and the verification of these data are presented, and a comparative analysis of statistical data is carried out.

Some aspects of the origin and content of the report and other documents from the fonds of the Russian State Archive in Samara, covering the problems of Soviet energetics during the first five-year period and the background of the «Industrial Party process», are disclosed.

The documents from the film director’s personal fond concerning the preparation of the screenplays of the films «Alexander Nevsky» and «Ivan the Terrible» in the 1930s – 1940s are characterized.

Written, photo and film documents about the pioneer of Russian ethnographic cinema, concentrated in the state archives and museums of the Far East are presented.

The main stages in the history of the town of Dudinka, the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets municipal district and the municipal state institution «Taimyr Archives» are marked out; the volume, composition and content of its fonds, directions of activities, material, technical and personnel base are described.

The history of the city of Mednogorsk and its archive, created in 1943, is elucidated; the main directions of its activity and achievements in collecting, preserving and organization of use of valuable documents are covered.

The memories about the graduate of the Institute of philosophy, literature and history (IFLI) A.V. Golovkin, who dedicated 40 years of his life to the archives of Turkmenistan, written by his son in April-June 2018 and stored in the family archive are published for the first time.

Five documents from the fond of the All-Union Resettlement Committee under the Council of People’s Commissars (SNK) of the USSR in the Russian State Archive of the Economy, which reveal the difficulties of the daily life of immigrants and the unpreparedness of local authorities to the conduction of the migration policy of the Center, are published.

The results of the training of the delegation of heads and specialists of the state and municipal institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan in the archives of Sichuan province are covered; proposals on the introduction of their best practices are formulated.