Tendencies in the study of orthodoxy in the Zabaikalye region in 1943-the end of the 1980 according to the documents of the State archive of the Russian Federation

The article is devoted to identification of areas of study of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Eastern Zabaikalye in the Soviet time on the basis of the sources of a number of state archives of the Russian Federation. This Federal archives, the State archive of the Russian Federation or the Archive of ancient acts, as well as regional archives, mainly in Zabaykalsky Krai, the Republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk region. Given the quantitative relations existing documents attempt to identify the most promising for the analysis of aspects of the Orthodox history of the region. At the same time, specifies some types of documents on a particular part of the history of Orthodoxy. The main conclusion of the author is the observation that documents some of the archives on the history of Orthodoxy in Eastern Zabaikalye was studied, to date, not enough. It is noted that some issues were analyzed more and some less.