The past 2021 was marked by the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR, the present 2022 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. As one can see in publications, past events and subsequent public responses the history of the Soviet state is now less politicized than it was some years ago. However there is a need of attentive and impartial study of the Soviet history, where documental publications, analytic researches, scientific conferences and exhibitions, all of them based on archival documents, are of great importance.

Evolution stages of corporate schedules system in Russia from XIX century to 2020 are presented. The typological features of schedules as regulatory documents on records appraisal and archives’ acquisitions, special aspects of their structure and items content are provided. The causes of now days problems in schedules developing are analyzed.

In accordance with current methodological support the work labour input related to the development of lists of documents, created in the federal executive bodies and their subordinate organizations activities, with identified retention periods is analyzed. Efforts, calculated on the base of existing methodological documents, and factual efforts are compared, main and additional factors, influencing the work labour input, are presented. The need of revision of current methodological support and working standards is highlighted.

The assessment of disposition and retention schedules as the records controls in conformance with the principles provided by ISO 15489 is considered. The forms of such authorities developed in different countries are presented. The Russian experience and practice of disposition and retention schedules usage in organizations are described.

The definition of the term “copy of document with the status of original” is studied. The history of the appearance and use of the term in microfilming standards and in archrivals normative documents is analyzed. The issues of storage, acquisition, accounting and use of microforms on the rights of originals in the state archives of the Russian Federation are considered. The methodological recommendations developed by the VNIIDAD research-team in 2021 are suggested to be used in archival work with microforms.

The development of Instructional Guidelines on Archival Documents Preservation in front of Emergency Situations is presented. The Instructional Guidelines are designed specially for federal state archives, but can be also used in state and municipal archives of the federal subjects of Russia.

One of the problems of the formation of the Archival Fund of the Russian Federation, associated with a decrease in the number of non-governmental organizations - sources of acquisition of archival institutions, is considered. It is noted that this process is caused by the legislative division of archival documents by forms of ownership and the establishment of the principle of voluntariness of relations with state and municipal archives of non-state sector organizations, whose documents belong to private property. The need of archival legislation improving in terms of establishing and maintaining a balance of interests of the state and non governmental organizations in preserving the historical and documentary heritage, as a resource for the formation and continuation of historical memory, and the protection of historical truth, is highlighted.

The modern approaches to evaluation of efficiency of EDMS/ECM-systems implementation and use, as a part of records management audit, are analyzed. Audit is presented as a process of quality validation and check the status of records management objects. Methods for calculating costs, labour and the value of the EDMS/ECM-systems are provided.

The implementation of methodology for using the integral indicators in municipal archives efficiency evaluation developed by Archives Department of the Republic of Bashkortostan is considered.

A brief overview of the fund R-42 “Limited Liability Partnership “Research Enterprise “Ethnos”, stored in the State Archive of Special Documentation of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, in particular, a complex of scientific, technical and photographic documentation on the creation of ethnographic museums and the development of scientific principles of their organization is presented.