The history of the visit of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Joseph II to the archive of the Collegium during his trip to Moscow was reconstructed with the use of unpublished documents of RGADA and Department of manuscripts of the Russian National Library (OR RNB); the participation of G.А. Potemkin in this event is shown.

The contribution of the head of the provincial archival department to the formation of the archival service of the region in 1919–1922, his professional activity in the pre-revolutionary period are elucidated.

The basic requirements to the sphere of records management in the state organizations formulated in this normative act are pointed out.

The results of the monitoring of archival sites in September 2018, organization of presentation of archival information, credibility of sites, index of their quality, problems of modernization are described.

The organizational side of the educational process under the results of the admission campaign of 2018 is shown.

The prehistory and the current state of cooperation between universities in the field of training of historians and archivists are elucidated.

25 years of experience of implementation by the Republic archival institutions of the plans for international cooperation with archival services of the States of Asia-Pacific and other regions are summarized.

The documents revealed in the Central state historical archive of St. Petersburg and the Central state archive of St. Petersburg are presented; their source potential is estimated.

The characteristic of the historical source value of the memoirs about the events of 1918–1920, which can significantly supplement the collection of documents published in 1958, is given.

The main milestones in the history of the city since its foundation in 1932 and of the archive created in 1947 are named; the composition and content of fonds, and the activities of the archive are characterized.

The main stages of the history of the district and its archive are described; information on the composition and volume of the fonds is given; work on preservation and use of documents is shown.

Several documents from the Central archive of the FSB of Russia on the activities of the archive of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission at the stage of its formation are published.