The formation of the network of regional archival institutions, their activities, financial and personnel support and the role of the Central Archives Administration in this process are investigated.

The work on the introduction of information technologies in the municipal archives and the role of the Main Archival Department of the Moscow region in this process are elucidated.

The organization of electronic interaction of the municipal archives of the region with the Pension Fund bodies and the inclusion of these archives in the information system «Don archives» are shown.

A pilot project on interaction of the Pension Fund bodies with the archives of Tatarstan, the results of which will make possible to initiate amendments to a number of Federal laws, is described.

The paper presents the results of digitization of a number of components of the MOIP archive and the databases created.

A number of databases containing dynamic data on socio-economic history are named; the history of their formation is shown; the question about the need for high-quality annotation and documentation of data in the archives is raised.

The characteristic of documents of fonds of the All-Russian society of protection of monuments of history and culture and its Moscow city department on the activity of civil society activists on protection of cultural heritage is given.

The history of the town of Glazov and its archives management since the creation of the district archival bureau and the work of contemporary archivists are shown.

The history of Nizhneudinsk and its archival service is covered; the staff of the archive and the main directions of its activity are presented.

The work of the custodians on preservation of the fonds of the archive in the historical building at the Palace square in Leningrad in 1960s – 1980s is presented.

The memoirs of the former director of RGALI from 1963 to 2001 tell about her life in the prewar and postwar periods, and the beginning of her work in the archive.

The eight-year experience of the Archival department of the Administration of the Suzun district in attracting additional funds from the municipal and regional budgets for archival projects is described.