The history of adoption and the results of implementation of state programs of support for all 44 municipal archives of the region in order to improve the conditions of storage of archival documents and the work of employees are covered.

The forms of cooperation of the Administration with local self-government bodies and 35 municipal archives of the region for strengthening the material and technical base of archives, preservation of documents, and the introduction of information technologies are shown.

Based on the monitoring of the state of documents stored in federal archives as of January 1, 2019, and the analysis of the reporting data of archival institutions of the Siberian Federal District for 2020, including municipal archives, the general problems of preservation of documents are named.

The results of work on the preservation of documents on the territory of the Krasnodar Territory for more than 15 years by the restoration department created in the Archive of documents on personnel are presented; the adopted Strategy for the development of this direction for 2021–2023 is described.

The history of the development, regulatory and methodological foundations of the published recommendations are described; brief characteristics of their parts are given.

The organization and development of work on acquisition of documents of personal origin for RGAE since 1962 are elucidated, some results are summed up, problems and their possible solutions are named.

A wide range of historical sources on the history of the siege of Leningrad from the collection of photo documents of the TsGAKFFD of St. Petersburg, in various aspects reflecting the defense and vital activity of the city and the work of the Ladoga route, is shown, the history of the collection’s formation is elucidated.

The article characterizes the corpus of sources deposited in the fonds of the State Archive of the Rostov Region and the Center for Documentation of the Modern History of the Rostov Region, allowing to analyze the specifics of the Soviet national policy and interethnic relations in the South of Russia in the 1920s–1930s, to form an idea of the peculiarities of ethnosocial processes in the region in the context of the main stages of the internal and foreign policy of the Soviet state. The composition, content and representativeness of documents on this topic are determined.

For the first time in historiography, an attempt has been made to analyze with the methods of the source studies the document of the Supreme Privy Council, extremely important in political and ideological terms – the minutes of its meetings on January 19, 1730, which officially registered the fact of inviting Empress Anna Ioannovna to the Russian throne only on conditions limiting her autocratic power.

The history of the village of Igra and its archival service since 1940 is elucidated, the main directions of its activities, the composition of documents and the archive’s staff are presented.

The main milestones in the history of the Shchekinsky district and its archive, the directions of its current work are shown.

For the first time, the reports of Saratov detectives who observed P.A. Stolypin from February 24 to April 14, 1904, as part of ensuring his safety, are published. These sources are supplemented by comments made by the author of the publication on the basis of the provincial press.

Attention is drawn to plagiarism in the works published in Yekaterinburg in the publishing house of the Ural University, the author of which is S.I. Tsemenkova, lecturer of the Department of Documentation, Archival Science and History of Public Administration of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin.