The views of scientists on understanding the substance of archival science, archaeography, and source study, their subject and object are characterized and the inevitability of their transformation is shown, taking into account the emergence of new types of documents and changes in research paradigms.

The provisions of normative legal documents regulating the work with electronic documents created and used in the management activities of state bodies, local authorities, and organizations are analyzed; the problems associated with their storage in the archives of organizations are considered.

The problems encountered in the process of registration, acquisition, and description of project documentation (including documentation on industrial construction facilities), as well as difficulties in interaction with organizations which develop scientific and technical documentation in general and project documentation in particular, are shown.

The main stages of the GASDNO activities on the acquisition of scientific and technical documentation for a quarter of a century, as well as existing problems and their possible solutions are shown.

The results of the work of the Yekaterinburg Municipal Center for Storage of Archival Documentation on the transfer of personnel documents created in the prewar and war years to permanent storage, taking into account their historical and practical significance, are presented.

The heuristic potential of information reports and cipher telegrams of state security agencies during the reconstruction of the religious policy of the Soviet state in 1922 in the South of Russia is shown.

The complex of photographic documents stored in the archive of the Museum of History of the V.A. Gilyarovsky Preobrazhenskaya Psychiatric Hospital in Moscow and related to its activities is characterized.

The history of the town of Zhigulevsk and its archive, formed in 1960, is elucidated; the main directions of activities, the composition of documents and the work of employees are shown.