The paper is cover to formation of the source base of nation-building in the Northern Caucasus. It discusses the characteristics of different groups of sources, given their characteristic and application possibilities.
In the diary of the Murom petty bourgeois Alexander Ivanovich Gladkov (1815–?) life of «the little person» from the province, the chosen occupation by trade by the vital path is reflected. It is history of the native of rather poor family who work and self-education achieved certain success, however I lost everything because of alcoholism. Notes fix many parties of a life and relationship of inhabitants of the ancient merchant city and bribe the frankness, addressing to those parties of private life about which then aloud didn't speak.
This is the first special publication documents Adygeysky regional party committee of the first period of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1942). It is based on a complex document storehouse documents the modern history of the State Institution «The National Archives of the Republic of Adygea». The documents describe a leadership role in the conduct of the party mobilizing residents to the front, the translation of the economy to military production, the organization of the life of the local society in the extreme conditions of military time and other questions.
The publication provides documents of Documentation Centre of Recent History in Rostov Region. These materials characterize the role of party authorities in the construction of the Rostov defense area (1941–1942).