The results of preparing of proposals for amendments to the existing rules of 2007 by the specialists of the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for documentation and archives are summarized; the necessity of elaboration of new rules in 2017 is proved.

The results of the questionnaire survey among organizations which became the basis for development of measures for the gradual organization of storage of electronic documents in Tatarstan are analyzed.

The practical work of the archive to specify the list of sources of acquisition, to improve the quality of documents value expertise and execution of its results by the employees of the organizations is generalized.

The unpublished notes and projects with proposals of citizens and organizations on overcoming the socio-political crisis from the archival fund of the Council of Ministers are analyzed.

The materials of the investigation conducted from 30 March to 13 May, 1917 under the leadership of a member of the Extraordinary investigation commission of the Provisional government V.O. Yuzhvik-Kompaneetz from the fund of the Prosecutor of the Petrograd judicial chamber are analyzed.

The methodological framework and intermediate results of formation of the automated information retrieval system for archival documents on the topical historical subjects are set out.

The characteristic of the structure and contents of the personal fund of the largest specialist in the field of preservation of archival documents, one of the oldest employees of the all-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for documentation and archives is given.

The history of Kumertau and its municipal archive formed in October, 1957, as well as the main directions of its work are elucidated.

18 letters of the historian-Medievalist to his pupil, which uncover the state of historical science and higher education in the first post-Soviet decades, from the Department of manuscripts of the Russian National Library are published in full.

The memoirs of the historian-archivist N.N. Mitrofanov about his colleague in the Glavarkhiv of the USSR, the graduate of the Institute for history and archives, from the personal archive of the memoirist are published.

The impressions of the letter’s author about the process of studying at the School of the International Institute for archival science of Trieste and Maribor in 2014–2016 are set forth.