The author identifies the deficiencies in synergetic studies which were started by domestic experts in records management, suggests a synergetic model for the informational records system, and trace out the prospects of extending this approach to archival and library sciences.

The actions of specialists of the Central state archive of film, photo and phono documents of St. Petersburg aimed at the acquisition of electronic audiovisual documents of the executive authorities of the city are elucidated.

The practice of the Central state archive of documents on personnel of the liquidated state enterprises, institutions and organizations of St. Petersburg on storage and use of documents of the liquidated state notary’s offices, resigned and acting notaries is summarized.

The stages of creation, legal basis and results of the Commission’s activity, as well as the problems that require immediate solution at the federal level are outlined.

The characteristic of written sources in Greek, stored in the Russian state archive of early acts is given, as well as the assessment of their information potential for the understanding of Russian-Georgian relations in the first half of the XVII-th century; the names of the interpreters of the Polish Prikaz are identified.

The article presents the corpus of documents selected in the Federal state archives (RGADA, RGIA, GARF) and the Department of manuscripts of the Russian National Library, which was prepared for publication.

The author analyses the origins, contents and practical use of drawings made by hand during the underway survey, deposited in the personal fund of the famous explorer of the Siberian North.

The source possibilities of documents generated in the activities of the provincial and regional offices of the NKVD and the district city departments of militia in the war years, from the Archive of the Department of MIA of Russia for the Primorye territory, are set out.

The article discloses the composition and the information potential of documents of the People’s Commissariat of foreign trade of the USSR, Soviet and American foreign trade associations, deposited in the Russian state archive of economy and the State archive of the Arkhangelsk region.

The composition of archival funds and collections formed from the documents of veterans is presented.

The history of the municipal formation of the Lovozersky district, originating in the sixteenth century, is elucidated, as well as of the archival department of the district administration, which is continuing collection and use of documentary heritage, started in 1929 by the Lovozersky district archive.

The preface «Revolution» to the fourth part of the published abroad memoirs «Life, thoughts, deeds, and meetings», and notes about the events in Kiev in the second half of 1918, preserved in the personal fund of the memoirist in the State archive of the Russian Federation, is published for the first time.

The travel notes of the local historian N.P. Antsiferov about the trip which plan had been suggested by his teacher I.M. Grevs (Rostov the Great – Yaroslavl – Kostroma – Nizhny Novgorod – Vladimir – Moscow), which became a part of the diary «Thoughts and days» (1924–1926), preserved in the Manuscript department of the Russian National Library, are published for the first time.

The author analyzes the principles of construction of several international and national professional standards of the last decade, identifies their strengths and formulates the suggestions for improvement on their basis of the draft of the national professional standard of a specialist and a chief of archive.