Agent-operational and investigative work in camps of people's commisariat for Internal Affairs - Ministry of the Interior of USSR: source study aspect

This article analyzes the sources of the agent, operational and investigative work in the camps of the PCIA and MI of the USSR in Western Siberia. On the basis of the central and regional archives the specifics of the most typical documents allowing to examine one of the least studied aspects of the history of the military captivity of West Siberian is revealed.