The yearbook contains materials on Russian history, archeography, archival studies, source studies, historiography, special historical disciplines from the Middle Ages to the present day. Materials of scientific conferences devoted to the study and publication of archival documents about the events of 1917, about the new in Moscow studies, articles about "archival revolution" in Russia in the 1990s, about the publications of the Code "The oldest sources on the history of Eastern Europe", the complete works of V. A. Zhukovsky, about the "All-Russian Memoir Library" in the House of Russian Abroad, about rare manuscripts of the pre-Petrine time, customs books, about the documentation of the time of the "Great Terror of 1937," etc.