On the basis of a set of party documents of the State Archive of Modern History of the Saratov region the life and activities of employees of the central state archives and the GAU of the NKVD of the USSR in evacuation during the Great Patriotic War are shown.

The definitions of the fundamental principles of archival science given in works of foreign archivists, and the possibility of their application to electronic documents are studied.

The article presents the directions of work of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East to perform (since 2016) the function of storing documents of Federal institutions operating in the territory of the district.

The article summarizes the 15-year experience of GASI CR in the field of acquisition (keeping a list of sources, making contracts, conducting inspections, methodological support).

The results of the activity (since 2011) of the scientific and educational center «Humanities archive», the composition of the formed fonds and collections, their use in the educational process, and prospects for work are presented.

A set of documents from the collections of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus and the State Archive of the Vitebsk region of the period of the three-year occupation of the Vitebsk region (history of accession in the archives, composition, source capabilities) is described.

The contents of personal fonds of displaced persons and emigrants of the «second wave» of Russian emigration who studied the history of DP are covered.

The source possibilities of documents stored in the archives of the Perm State Art Gallery and the personal fonds of the Department of manuscripts of the State Tretyakov Gallery, to highlight the interaction of local and metropolitan museums in the conditions of evacuation, are shown.

The history of the town of Vyazniki and Vyaznikovsky archive, created in 1919, its first leaders, directions of modern work are shown.

The memoirs of the participant in the Great Patriotic War A.S. Volchenkov and documents of the headquarters of his partisan detachment, stored in the State Archive of the Ivanovo region and the Gavrilovo-Posadsky municipal local history museum are published for the first time.

The results of source research of the memoirs of the guerrilla-war veteran and documents of the partisan detachment, the stages and participants in the Rzhev-Vyazma operation, the problems of encirclements are shown; the special attention is drown to the causes of errors in the calculations of the losses of the Red Army. Certain War participants mentioned in the analyzed documents were verified, including captain P.E. Grigoriev and lieutenant I.L. Sukach killed in the battle of July 18, 1941, who are mentioned in the OBD «Memorial» as missing.