The article discusses the role of standards and the history of the development of documents standardization in record keeping and documentation support of management in Russia during the last 100 years. A special attention is paid to the modern situation and the increased role of standards in developing the national regulatory base of records management in general and documentation support of management in particular. The author suggests a complex solution for improving the regulatory base of this professional area through the elaboration of the State system of informational and documentation support of management, the former supplemented by mutually coordinated national standards.

The article includes the development of approaches to identify electronic records and their classification in the area of records management and archival affair. The ability to transfer for permanent storage to archive records that never existed on paper, makes a fresh identify scanned records as electronic copies of records. The article also includes current approaches to identify the databases and web documents as electronic records in terms of their archival storage.

Documents of a personal origin are unique to a specific set, but as a part of Archival Fund of the Russian Federation is considerably inferior to the amount of documentation official managerial nature. Therefore, the article deals with terms used in working with the documents of personal origin, such as common, or private, moreover, the terms formal and informal in nature. In addition, the article provides a comparative analysis of some of the terms enshrined in normative documents, training manuals and appear on the pages of arhivovedenie print.

The article makes an attempt to trace the organization of work with documents, their composition and movement in the conduct of the only All-Russian census of subjects of the Russian Empire of 1897, completed only by 1905. Particular attention is paid to the difficulties faced by authorities at all levels in the population survey, In many respects became the basis for a critical attitude to the results of this grandiose statistical event.

The article discusses the idea of reforming the archival Affairs in the Kuban area, the proposed military archivist I.I. Kiyashko in the context of views on this issue D.J. Samokvasov and his proposals for reform of archival business in Russia. The article traces the continuity of views of the development of archives in the capital and in the Kuban. Examines the reasons not allowing to implement archival reform.

The article is devoted to the work of the Komsomol group in the Central archival administration in the 1920s-1930s. Investigated the role of the group in ideological, household and professional training of young archivists. Also investigated links with the pioneer organization. Also it introduced a complex of archival documents of the Komsomol group.

The article analyses activity of the permanent commissions for nature protection in executive committees of Councils of workers’ deputies in 1960th - 1980th. The author characterized the legal commissions activity and showed their everyday problems. Special attention is paid to the processes of documenting and types of documents formed in the course of work of the permanent commissions for nature protection in executive committees of Councils of workers’ deputies of the town of Surgut and the Surgut district. The analysis of office administration and processes of documenting the work of the commissions on conservation permitted to outline a circle of environmental problems for zones of active industrial development of the Siberian North during the Soviet period and allowed to determine information opportunities of office work documentation as source by environmental history of the Siberian North. Further studying in processes of documenting and types of documents of the commissions will give the chance to expand a subject of researches on ecological history of not only the North of Siberia, but also the Russian North in general.

The article is referred to the Great Charter, circumstances of its adoption and history . In addition, this article analyses issues of studying the document and in England and Russia for last 100 years. The first-ever in Russia the Charter was studied, translated and published in Russian language by D.M. Petrushevsky. Studies of the Magna Charta and documents, connected with it, are based on materials, kept in the personal fund of D.M. Petrushevsky in Russian Academy of science archive. The other sources are comments of Petrushevsky referred to the first publications The Great Charter, written by Petrushevsky himself.

In the Bulgakov's literary heritage the play “Days of the Turbins” holds a prominent place: based on his “White Guard” novel it was his first work performed by the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT). As resources for studying its theatre and publishing history, its gradual reworking in 1925 and 1926, serve typewritten copies of its three editions now kept in several archival funds and represented in handwritten Bulgakov’s heritage in the form of variants and lists. The article examines relations between art history of the play “Days of the Turbins” (particularly, its staging perception of Moscow Art Theatre in 1926), first publications of its three editions and its manuscripts preserved in archives of Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

The documents stored in funds of the State archive of the Saratov region represent a most abundant source for the study of economic, political and cultural life of the region. This article provides an analysis of the documents for Muslim (Tatar) education deposited in the fund 13 - the Directorate of public schools of the Saratov province (1820-1918). Those documents permit to trace what changes occurred in the system of national education of Tatars in Saratov province. It is revealed that records of the provincial Directorate and the county inspectors reports on the state of public schools are of the great value to researchers. Another important direction of the work of the Directorate of public schools was the endeavour to introduce universal primary education and to open government schools for the Tatar population. As the documents show, that work was slow and difficult. The conclusion is that the documents of the period under consideration allow us to trace with sufficient completeness the process of development of national education of Tatars in Saratov province in XIX - early XX century.

The article analyzes the documents from The Times Archive (Archive & Record Office Group Publishing Services) relating to George Dobson, who was one of the first correspondents of The Times in St. Petersburg. Dobson represented The Times in Russian in the reigns of three Emperors, Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicolas II and attended two coronations and two Imperial Funerals. He stabilized the position of a regular Times’ Correspondent at St. Petersburg. Dobson participated in the Russo-Turkish War in Bulgaria as a war correspondent and was the first Englishman who traveled by the new-built Russian railway from Oozon-Ada to Bukhara, Merv and Samarcand in 1888.

The aim of this article is to inform the researchers about documents of politicians and statesmen of Imperial Russia which are kept in archives USA. Memoirs represent the substantial part of the sources containing information about the Revolution of 1917. Memoirs differ by their size and completeness of information, but in many cases they are the unique source of information about events and persons and they descript them differently from official documents, include details which are not reflected in other types of documents

We consider the problem of identifying of destructive information influences in the Internet, its social, legal and technological aspects. The study of relationship between these aspects allows to create effective socio-technical mechanisms of detection and prevention of such influences in the future and to take into account the social and legal aspects of the problem of counteraction. For example, for automatic detection of malicious content on social networks it is necessary to know what information is prohibited for distribution in the country in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, what patterns and message templates should be created for content analysis of the information environment of social services and how to keep them up to date, etc.