Reflection of research results in the field of social, natural and technical sciences in the 20th century (based on materials of scientific and technical documentation)

The study of the history of science and technology is impossible without the involvement of scientific and technical documentation reflecting the results of scientific and technical activities, both of individual representatives of science and technology who have contributed to the development of social, natural and technical sciences, and of specialized organizations. This group of documents has been little studied by researchers and is only still being introduced to the scientific world, while it contains information that is absent in other types of sources. Using the example of the documents of the Regional State Administration in Samara, the author of the article reveals the specifics of the composition and content of documents belonged to one of the types of scientific and technical documentation, namely, research work.