The structure, directions of activity of the archive, its personnel in the pre-war decades are described.

The experience of the archive’s cooperation with non-governmental organizations is analyzed; the ways of solving the problems of accession of their documents in the archives are proposed.

Sources of acquisition of the archive, structure of the accepted documents, forms of work with public associations are shown.

The article summarizes the 20-year experience of the state archives of St. Petersburg of the conversion of the most popular documents into electronic form and the organization of the fonds of use, including those within the state information system «Archives of St. Petersburg».

The article describes the experience of specialists of the Republic of Tatarstan on digitization of archival documents, ensuring their preservation during scanning, transportation, etc.

The article covers the history of the archival institution, which has the right of the depository storage of documents, its activities at the present stage, including the functioning of the subsystem «Archive of documents» of the Unified branch records management system «Rosatom», as well as the creation of the Data processing center.

The article describes the work of the Archives on digitization, storage and provision of electronic records to users, with due consideration of the new legislation which allows to destroy analog documents after digitization.

The history of the town of Volsk and the archives management in the town since the creation of the district archival bureau, staff of the archive and the main directions of its activity are shown.

The documents formed as a result of the activities of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Inquisitor Nikanor Podgaetsky, as well as office materials of other inquisitorial orders are presented.

The sources from the fonds of the Central State Archive of Moscow and the Scientific Research Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library, covering the organization and the content of the educational process, the development of the course of the higher theological school are characterized.

The information potential of the documents created in the activity of the church institutions of Obdoria is presented; the organization of their storage and use from the late nineteenth century until now is elucidated.

A corpus of documents of GARF on the history of the organization of the pilgrimage of Muslims from the USSR to Mecca is presented.

The journals of two sessions of the Synod, the last in the life of Patriarch Sergiy (Stragorodsky) and the following special one where his will was read, which are stored in GARF, are published for the first time.

The documents from the fonds of SOGASPI about the life of Jewish religious communities in the city of Kuibyshev and the region in the postwar years are published.