The circle of persons Nicholas II was in correspondence with in 1883–1911, its frequency and volume are determined.

The results of the work on the identification and copying of documents on the history of the Chechen people in the State Archives of the Krasnodar Territory and the Documentation center for modern history of the Rostov region are shown.

A regional pilot project of storage organization, acquisitions, control and use of electronic documents «Electronic Archive» is introduced.

The contents, results and prospects of development of the project initiated by the Main Archival administration under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2013 are exposed.

The reasons for the creation of the Chair of archives and records management in the Tauride Academy of the University for targeted training of specialists under the bachelor’s and master’s programs developed together with the Archival Service are uncovered.

Results of comparative analysis of the principles of formation, structure and contents of the curriculums of the Faculty of documentation science and technotronic archives of the Institute for history and archives of the Russian State University for the humanities and the University of Dundee which educate records managers are published.

The main aspects of the educational process and the content of educational programs of «archival science and information technology» specialization in five universities of Sweden (in Gothenburg, Karlstad, Lund, Sundsvall and Uppsala) are exposed.

The official documents uncovering the long process of preparation of the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR of February 1, 1940 and the beginning of its implementation, which were identified in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, are analyzed.

The information capabilities of documents of the Russian State Historical Archive and the Department of manuscripts of the Russian State Library for the reconstruction of the process of elaborating the concept of church and diplomatic presence of Russia in China at the end of the Crimean War are disclosed.

The preliminary results of textological analysis of the notes left by Theophan the Recluse on the manuscript «The key to the Eastern question» of St. Panteleimon Monastery library are published.

The content of the letter of Ambrose (Grenkov) to Bishop Peter (Ekaterinovsky) preserved in the manuscript collection of the Elder’s letters is analyzed.

The most important milestones in the history of the city of Petrozavodsk, founded in the XVIII century, and its municipal archive, one of the youngest in the Republic of Karelia, the structure of funds of the archive and the main directions of activities of its staff are elucidated.

The major milestones in the history of archives of Korea are outlined; their modern network is presented; the subject matter and the program of the upcoming XVIII Congress of the International Council on Archives in Seoul are disclosed.

The work of the State Archival Administration of China with electronic documents is shown.

The biography of socialist-revolutionary Peter Alexandrovich Sokolov from the Collection of documents of the provincial and the territorial commissions on the history of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) of the State social and political archive of the Nizhny Novgorod region (GOPANO), which elucidates the «Social Revolutionary» history of the Russian Revolution at the district, provincial and national levels, as well as the process of its «transformation» in the 1920s, is published for the first time.