T. I. Khorkhordina and new historical archival science

The article analyses the scientific work of T.I. Khorkhordina, a specialist on the history of archives, one of the leading scholars of the Institute for History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH). The main attention is paid to theoretical reflections on the science of archives in modern conditions through analysing the history of archival thought in connection with the fate of Russian historians-archivists of several generations. It also assesses the contribution of T.I. Khorkhordina in the national historical-archival science. It is concluded that the main vector in the scientific research of T.I. Khorkhordina consists in the disclosure of the humanity component in the science of archives, the restoration of the history of archival thought in its «human dimension».