Activities of Scandinavian scientific committee “Northern society” in Soviet Russia at turn of 1920s - 1930s

The paper deals with the analysis of mutual activities of the Soviet diplomatic mission, Soviet archives administration, and Scandinavian scientific committee “Northern society” in the area of international scientific communication development and archival information exchange during the second half of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. On the basis of documents found in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (SARF) and in the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (AFPRF) the author considers the issues of arrangement of Scandinavian scientists' work in Soviet archival institutions; studies practices of archival documents' photocopying realized within the frames of the Soviet-Scandinavian Agreement; researches the problem of diplomatic adjustment of border disputes conducted with the aid of archival documents found by Scandinavian historians. The paper summarizes grounds for termination of the Agreement with the Northern Society in February, 1932, and for freezing Soviet archival policy based on the open principal in regard to foreign researchers.