The differences in the organizational and legal status of 232 municipal archival institutions in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the trends towards lowering their status and reducing the staff size, are shown. Attention is drawn to the connection of the problems with the loss of an independent status by a number of archival administrative bodies.

The tools that ensure the development of 46 municipal archives of Tatarstan are presented: the republican program to improve the conditions for storing documents, the program of major repairs of departmental archives in municipalities, professional competitions with prize funds, training seminars.

The article describes the interaction of the Committee for Archives of the Nizhny Novgorod region and 50 municipal archival institutions operating there: organization of professional retraining, verification of compliance with legislation in the field of archives, work on the creation of an insurance fonds and digitization of documents. Attention is drawn to the high degree of storage load in some archives, their insufficient staffing.

The main characteristics of the condition of 74 municipal archives in the municipalities of the region are given; the negative dynamics of their development are noted: a reduction in the number of archival departments and an increase in municipal archival institutions, insufficient staffing and the absence of its dependence on the volume of stored documents. A proposal was made to develop at the federal level a methodology for calculating the economic feasibility of creating an archival institution.

Problems in the work of municipal archives which have appeared with the introduction of the Rules 2020 are shown on the example of the Chelyabinsk region, including difficulties with meeting the requirements related to the creation and storage of an insurance fonds, as well as to the restoration of archival documents. Proposals for their solution are formulated.

The results of the analysis of information on the activities of the archival services of 45 subjects of the Russian Federation in connection with the anniversaries of their creation, identified during the monitoring of the portal «Archives of Russia» and the websites of archival institutions, are presented.

Russian and foreign historiography related to the map of Muscovy is presented, its descriptions made by Russian researchers are compared, and xylographic copies from the collections of the Russian State Archive of Early Acts and the Library of St. Mark are compared.

The author highlights the history of collecting sources on the Battle of Tsushima by the writer and its participant A.S. Novikov­Priboy for work on the novel «Tsushima», analyzes the composition of documents stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts, the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian National Library and the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) RAS.

The characteristic of the documents of the secret part of the Leningrad City Executive Committee stored in the fonds of the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg is given, their source possibilities for studying the topic of the survival of besieged Leningrad in its various aspects are revealed: from mobilization pre-war measures to the organization of evacuation of the population, public catering, food accounting, formation of the city budget, control over the implementation of decisions taken.

The corpus of lists of those evacuated to the region from Moscow, Leningrad and other territories of the USSR, identified in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk region, is presented, their content, quantitative data, characteristic features and some difficulties of work with these sources are shown.

Documents related to the history of industrial development of Yamal are presented, the main groups are identified: office documentation that allows to trace the implementation of decisions of higher-level local authorities and their consequences, as well as documents of personal origin and periodical materials containing an assessment of the facts by eyewitnesses and participants in the events.

The nearly 100 year history of the Pavlovsky archive, formed in 1924, is presented, the composition of the fonds and the main areas of activity are presented.

The letters from the personal fonds of Academician S.A. Zhebelev, written to him by his friend and colleague, philologist-antiquologist, papyrologist G.F. Tsereteli, who was repeatedly subjected to unjustified repressions and died in prison in 1938, clarifying the circumstances of the elections of full members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, revealed in the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are introduced into scientific circulation.

Two letters from the personal fonds of the largest Slavist Professor A.Stender­Petersen, stored in the Royal Danish Library in Aarhus, to the beginning Soviet historian, later dissident A.A. Amalrik and a reply letter of the professor related to the preparation by A.A. Amalrik of a study on the role of the Normans in the history of Russia, which contradicted the anti-Normanism of Soviet historiography, are published.