Vasily Khristoforov

The author of the article, the head of the Department of registration and archival funds of FSB of Russia, gives the review of a complex of documents of the period of the Great Patriotic War, stored in archives of the structures of the state security of Russia. The author considers laws and standard legal certificates; office work documents; judicial investigatory affairs and materials of the state check (filtration), periodicals and documents of a personal origin (memoirs, diaries, private correspondence) on the research theme.