Presentation of information resources of the Russian archives in global information networks is an actual task of the current stage of archives management development. This task is a part of the Program of archives management informatization in the Russian Federation. The report highlights results of a project on creating an information portal „Archives of Russia“. Infrastructure of the portal, its main aims, formation of information resources are considered in it. Basic methodical approaches to the portal’s structure, forms and methods of work on filling the resource and support it in a working order are also reflected in this report. The main purpose of the portal is to give users additional opportunities to get access to archives, finding aids, specific records and their collections based on modern information technologies. The author describes principal methods for enhanced interaction of archives and their users in the process of obtaining necessary new information, legal basis for such cooperation, fulfillment of social and legal, and case requests of users. Major forms of archival records’ usage: central fund catalogue, state register of unique records of the Russian Federation Archival fund, guides to the Russian archives, electronic inventories of federal archives, online - projects exhibitions, electronic library, services to users in electronic form are mentioned in the report. Portal „Archives of Russia“ gives an opportunity to provide direct access to 85 regional archival resources and allows for a possibility of its expansion and additions. The author also presents a related project for creation of a virtual reading room in federal archives. As a part of this project it is expected to provide online - user access to archival records, including possibility of copying them. These projects will greatly enlarge the abilities of users to archives’ access by using modern information technologies and enable greater participation of the Russian archives in the world information space.