The proposed edition contains articles of the participants of the international conference “Historical research in the context of data science: information resources, analytical methods and digital technologies”, held in online format on December 4-6, 2020 . Supported by RFFI. The conference was organized by the Faculty of History of Moscow State University . In. Lomonosov and the Interregional Association "History and Computer" . Within the framework of this international conference, the XVII AIC . conference was held. The main purpose of the conference is to discuss the prospects and problems of further development of historical research in the context of digitalization and the increasing importance of the processes of processing and analysis of historical sources data on the basis of accumulated experience.