The least known period of the activity of N.M. Chernavsky as the head of the district archive in 1924–1925 is exposed; his participation in the preparation of materials for the first congress of archival workers, his dismissal from the post for the reason of the class mismatch are shown.

The results of identification and analysis of documentary editions appeared in the post-Soviet period, which were carried out by the All-Russian scientific and research institute for records and archives management, are set forth.

The results of the analysis of the scientific and popular science publications of collected documents, prepared by the State Archives of the Volga Federal District in 2010–2014, are shown.

The history of the origin in 1940 and publication in 1948 of the Russia’s only serial publication of sources on the history of sciences, confirmed by archival documents, are elucidated.

The contents and the range of sources of the historical and biographical work about Ivan IV, stored in the fund of its author in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are exposed; the history of its creation is shown.

The results of the source analysis of documents issued from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) in 1942 in connection with the play of A.N. Tolstoy «Ivan the Terrible» are set forth; the participation of historians and I.V. Stalin personally in their preparation is shown.

The personal and official documents clarifying some pages of the biography of the Grand Duke, identified in various funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, are presented.

The history of the settlement Bolshoe Murashkino from the XVII-th century and of the district state archive since the 1930’s (from 2007, archival sector of the Administration of the Bolshemurashkinsky municipal district), the main directions of its activity are elucidated.

The documents from the fund of the Chancellery of the Saratov province Commission on rural and urban affairs of the State Archive of Saratov region, characterizing the positions of all the sides of the conflict and its circumstances, are published for the first time.

The unattributed manuscript with the comments on the «Historical messages» of pastor I.Neubauer about the regions of the Lower Volga and the Caspian Sea, stored in the «Miller portfolios» in RGADA, is published for the first time, a comparative analysis of the text is realized, the author of the manuscript is determined.