Personal archives of V. A. Gorodtsov and the experience of their scientific use (after materials of registration and inquiry of OPI SHM)

Since 1989, documents of the prominent Russian archaeologist Vasiliy A. Gorodtsov are available for scientific studies. Registration of various documents conducted at the Department of Written Sources of the State His- torical Museum (OPI SHM) allows the researchers to analyse and systemize the practice of the scientific usage of the museum’s documentary collection. In the present paper, summary data are presented on the academic belonging of the researchers who studied materials from these archives, the geography of the scientific centres which they represented and analysis of the subjects of the investigations carried out. This study has resulted in sketching the general situation of the historiographic use of documents from V. A. Gorodtsov’s archives and outlining of the presumable directions of the fur- ther examination of the scholar’s archives and, particularly, of the study of the system of the archaeologist’s professional communications and of his ‘creative laboratory’.