The work and life of employees of the archive and its Vyborg branch during the evacuation, which helped to minimize the loss of the archival fonds, are described.

The experience of creating of electronic finding aids, including the conversion of traditional card catalogs into electronic format (retroconversion), is summarized, and the enhancement of information search capabilities is pointed out.

The results of the activity of the expert working group “Creation of legal conditions for the formation of the electronic civil turnover sphere” in the framework of the program “Digital economy”, which developed the proposals for amendments to Federal laws in terms of working with electronic documents, are presented.

The results of an experiment made by the Ministry of labor of Russia with the participation of 13 large Russian companies on conducting personnel records in electronic form are presented; the problems requiring solutions are identified.

The regulatory legal solutions in the preparation for accession of electronic records for the state storage, are shown.

The work of the Swedish company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB and its archive on the preservation and transfer of information about the nuclear fuel repository to the distant future is covered.

The article presents the results of the source study of 440 Arabic manuscripts of the Rare books departments of the National library of the Republic of Bashkortostan named after Akhmet-Zaki Walidi and the Scientific library of the Ufa Federal research center of RAS.

On the basis of the study there was made a hypothesis about the existence of the «Russian office» which led the correspondence of Hebdon with the Prikaz of secret affairs.

The main milestones in the history of the town and its archive, created in 1956, are elucidated; the directions of its activity are presented.

The documents of the State Archives of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the policy in regard to the letters of Ivan Turgenev to the literary critic P.V. Annenkov, which came at the disposal of the Simbirsk provincial committee of academic libraries during the Civil War and at the present time are stored in RGALI, are introduced into scientific circulation.

The memoirs, which are being published, based on the letters of V.D. Bovanenko of the 1950s-1960s, tell about the history of the discovery of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia; the introductory article covers the work of archivists on the formation of his personal fond.