The results of the comparative analysis of cadastres of Novgorod fifths (pyatinas) of the XVIth century and book paintings sent from Novgorod to Moscow in 1688 are summarized with the conclusion that the latter was the basis of the collection.

The author has reconstructed the order of work with documents in the office of the Provisional government in March – October 1917, revealed the composition of the preserved materials and the history of their accessions to the state archives.

The author formulates the problems and the first results of the implementation of the project of creation of the electronic archive of organizationin the framework of the Unified interdepartmental electronic records management system, realized with the participation of the State Archivesof the Republic of Tatarstan.

There are allocated and described the three stages (since 2009) of the development and implementation of multipurpose branch information system designed to automate the activities of the Archival service of the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district, state archivesand 22 municipal archives.

The facts about the state and prospects of academic science at a turning point of the Russian history, reflected in the documents of the Archives of RAS, are given in the article.

The background, process and results of discussion by the expert community of the issues of protection and rational use of natural resources of lake Baikal are elucidated.

The structure and the content of written and audiovisual documents on the formation and development of biological science in the Republic of Komi in 1926–2014 are revealed.

The key milestones in the history of the urban municipality Zima since the eighteenth century, of the city archives, created in 1965 and transformed into the archival department in 1992, are defined; priorities inthe activity of archivists and their achievements are elucidated.

The bulletins of the chief of the Petrograd militia about socially significant city events in the pre-October days, identified in the fund of the Procurator of the Petrograd judicial chamber, are published.

The consular report compiled from information of press and personal observations, deposited in the Archives of the Ministry of foreign affairs of Belgium, is published in the Russian language for the first time.