The participation of the Central archival administration of the USSR in presenting the most commercially interesting archival documents abroad before or instead of their publication in the USSR is elucidated, the role of the Literary Agency and its founder D.A. Umansky in this process is shown.

The stages of relocating the archive from Leningrad, organization and directions of its work during three years in Chelyabinsk, the contribution of its head I.N. Nikitin and the team to the preservation of the Party documents are shown.

The organization of acquisition process in the State and municipal archives of the republic by means of the Unified interdepartmental electronic records management system and the Unified archival information system of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the prospects of this activity are shown.

The results of the analysis of the survey of state departments on the presence of electronic documents, electronic records management systems, as well as the requirements developed by the archive for the description of electronic documents are presented.

The difficulties of archival appraisal of design documentation are shown, and suggestions for improving this work are given.

The forms of work of the expert verification commission are presented: hearing of heads of municipal archives, organization of field meetings and competitions for organizations – sources of acquisition.

The article describes the activities of the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States (NARA) and the Electronic Records Center established in its structure in 1989.

The article presents the results of the work on the description of disordered documents written in several foreign languages from the museum department of the archive related to the activities of the German journalist, human rights activist, Albert Einstein secretary S.Jacobi, which resulted with the formation of an inventory of one hundred folders, and shows their source capabilities.

The contribution of public representatives in the preservation of documentary heritage of the city in the framework of the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Scientific Archival Commission is shown; the main directions of the archive’s work for 30 years of its existence are characterized; the preparations for the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod are named.

The history of the district and the archive for 85 years of its activity is covered.

The documents related to the history of the purchase of the documentary heritage of the great-grandson of the Peter the Great favorite, who had been leading the Russian Navy for a quarter of a century, the participation of Nicholas II, the Maritime Minister I.K. Grigoro­vich, and archivists in this affair are introduced into scientific circulation.