Activities of the Main Archive Department at Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR

Abstract

The article examines the formation and main activities of archival bodies under the Council of Ministers, reflects the opinions of archival specialists who conducted research on the Soviet period, legislative regulation of the main duties and rights of archival management, as well as the tasks of archival institutions of the republic. An activity of structural divisions of the central office of the Main Archival Department in the period from 1960 to 1990 was analyzed.