The contribution of V.A. Savin in the study of the history, theoretical and practical problems of the national archives management, as well as in the training of historians and archivists is defined.

An analytical review of publications of archival documents and scientific articles in national periodicals and continued editions issued in 2005–2015 is given.

The methods and the results of the archive on the formation of the documentary fund and its use for reconstruction of biographies of the victims of the Holocaust are exposed.

The experience of work of the State Archive of the Bryansk region for use of documents on the history of the Holocaust in the educational process is generalized.

The structure and the history of formation of a set of documents on the defense of Sevastopol, including its preparation and initial period (from late June to November 1941), is revealed.

The results of the analysis of the origin and contents of the journal for records about daily operations of the commander of military area «Mitte» and his staff, which translation is available at the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Smolensk Region, are given.

The composition of funds of the republican, Izhevsk city and regional military offices’ archives is presented.

The most important pages of the biography of the commissar, one of the organizers of the military registration work in the Simbirsk province, the Perm region, the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, confirmed by documents from his personal fund in GAUO, are made public.

The history of the town of Nyagan of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra and its municipal archive, formed in 1986, is elucidated; the main areas of the archive’s work are covered.

The memoirs of the participant of the defense of Sevastopol during the Great Patriotic War I.A. Zaruba from the documentary department of the State Museum of heroic defense and liberation of Sevastopol about his experiences in late June – early July 1942, his stay in captivity, including that together with Major General P.G. Novikov, are fully published for the first time; the history of the formation in the museum of the complex of documents on the defense of Sevastopol and their composition are shown.