PERSONAL FUNDS OF STATE ARCHIVES OF THE SAMARA REGION: GENERAL OVERVIEW AND CLASSIFICATION
The material of the article contains a classification, a review and a brief source-vedic characteristic of funds with documents of personal origin, which are permanently stored in the Samara regional archives: the Central State Archive of the Samara Region (TsGASO) and the Samara Regional Archive of Social and Political History (SOGASPI) ... Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the SOGASPI funds. The analysis made allows us to present the information potential of the documents of the named funds deposited according to the author's and thematic principles, their number, chronological framework, life path and professional composition of fund-builders, categories of documents of specific funds. The content of the analysis will help researchers to navigate in finding and using a significant layer of archival documents.