Interview with the head of the USSR Main Archives Administration, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor FM Vaganov (synchronously) about the history of the organization of archival affairs in the USSR. Documents of the Central State Archive of the October Revolution, the Central State Archive of the National Economy of the USSR, the Central State Archive of Literature and Art, the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts, the State Historical Archive in Leningrad. Archive repositories; the work of archivists on the restoration of documents. Researchers work in the reading rooms of the state archives.