The reference book is an index of collections of archival documents, historical and documentary materials and memories, systematized by the years of their publication in Soviet and Russian publishing houses from 1917 to 2000 .. The handbook includes collections of historical and documentary materials (selected from the state archives of the USSR) and memoirs, which also serve as a historical source. The handbook is equipped with a scientific reference device that facilitates the search for information about documentary collections that correspond to the topic, subject, historical person, geographical object or chronological period of the study .. There are also indexes of archives that provided documents or prepared a collection, and publishers that released the collection in the light of .. The handbook is intended for researchers, archivists, teachers and humanitarian students, all who are interested in historical archival documents.