The history of construction of the archival building for storage of documents of city authorities and organizations in the capital of the Russian Empire is set forth.

The pages of the history of the region’s first archival authority (staff, premises, composition of fonds) are restored on the archival documents of the State Archive of the Orenburg region.

The literature of the last decade is analyzed; the indisputable achievements and unresolved questions in the study of national archaeography are noted.

The history of the origin of the publishing project, methods of identification and selection of documents for publication, their species composition and content are covered.

The review of documentary and reference editions of the archive of the last five years is given; the organization and methods of their preparation are covered; urgent problems are revealed.

The organization of the publication work of the Institute specialists and its results are presented.

The published collections of documents and reference books on the most popular topics, the main stages and difficulties in their preparation are characterized.

The article presents the most important requirements of the current Russian copyright legislation, which are to be observed in the process of work on the presentation of archival documents on the Internet.

The results of monitoring of finding aids of archival institutions of the Volga Federal district, presented in Runet by November 2018, are summarized.

The article describes the efforts of the European Union on the promotion of interaction of information systems, which are laid down in the program of development of interoperability for the needs of public administration, business and citizens for 2010–2020.

Information capabilities (structure, content, significance) of the archival fonds of the Chuvash Committee of Youth of the RSFSR, Editorial office of Republican pioneer newspaper, etc., for the study of the history of the Timurite movement in the region are presented.

The main milestones in the history of the city, dating back to the early XVIIth century, and of its archive, appeared in the mid 1930s, are covered; the composition and content of the fonds, the team and its main achievements are presented.

The original documents of the late XIX – early XX centuries on the implementation of projects on improvement of living conditions and education of workers, and on evaluation of their results by teachers and pupils of Sunday schools are published for the first time.

The history of the 1st and 2nd Archival alleys, which had lost their names, was reconstructed, and the proposal to return their original names was substantiated.