Based on the documents stored in the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg and the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, the work of the State Historical Archive of the Leningrad Region and its staff in 1941–1945 is elucidated; the evacuation of part of the fonds and the collective body to Chkalov, reevacuation, the work of archivists in the rear and in besieged Leningrad, their participation in the restoration of the city and the archive are shown.

On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the traveler, writer and researcher V.K. Arsenyev, his contribution to the preservation of the scientific, cultural and historical heritage of the Fatherland is shown, including a survey of the archives of the district archival office and other institutions of the Far East in order to identify materials about the population of the region, and the Far Eastern cultural environment and its representatives – professional archivists, he had the opportunity to communicate with in his versatile activities, are described. The facts from the history of the formation of the archive and the library of the scientist are given.

On the basis of documents (protocols, working and methodological materials, reports and messages, reviews and analytical references, etc.) deposited in the fonds of the Central Archive of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the history of the formation and organizational support, as well as the main activities of the zonal Scientific and Methodological Council of Archival Institutions of the Volga-Vyatka Economic District in 1970–2001 is elucidated.

Some results of a survey of users of Russian archival sites conducted by the All-Russian Research Institute for Records and Archives Management in order to consider at maximum their interests and needs when preparing methodological recommendations «Creation and development of Internet sites of state and municipal archives of the Russian Federation» are presented; 688 questionnaires received on June 2, 2022 (during two months from its beginning) are analyzed.

The content of 15 travel notebooks of the famous Russian scientist-slavist I.I. Sreznevsky, deposited in the Sreznevsky family fonds in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts, allowing to restore the route of his scientific trip to the Slovenian lands and giving an idea of almost all spheres of folk life and everyday life of the Southern Slavs, as well as the organization of foreign scientific trips by the Ministry of Public Education, is analyzed.

On the basis of documents identified in several federal and regional archives, an attempt was made to reconstruct the biography of one of the representatives of the highest bureaucracy of the Russian Empire, censor M.A. Lagodovsky; his studies and subsequent service in the censorship bodies of Warsaw in the late XIX – early XX centuries are elucidated.

The main milestones of the history of the Krasnogorsk district, as well as its archive, created in April 1944, are shown; the main directions of work, the team and its achievements are presented.

The memoirs of the outstanding Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, the founder of the Saratov psychiatric school, Professor M.P. Kutanin are introduced into scientific circulation. The transcript of an interview conducted in 1944 by the head physician of the 1st Moscow Psychiatric Hospital M.A. Dzhagarov, not only allows to eliminate certain gaps in the biography of the scientist, to reveal the depth and scale of his activities, but it is also an important source on the history of medicine and local history.

To the 100th anniversary of the birth of M.V. Stegantsev, Director of the Russian State Military Archive from 1985 to 1992, one of the founders of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists, his memories of military education, service in the Danube Flotilla, the first days of the Great Patriotic War, participation in the defense of Sevastopol, preserved in the family archive, are published (by audio recording).