Historical dimension of documentation of management activity in the USSR as the basis of modern domestic records

The article presents the result of the analysis of publications on the problem of documentation of management activities in the USSR for the period 1946–1991 in modern domestic professional publications, taking into account the time interval from the beginning to the 20th year of the XXI century. The development of Soviet documentation in 1946–1991 laid the foundation for the further formation of modern documentation in independent Ukraine. A number of normative and methodological documents created during this period are still in force today. This stage of the history of documentation is characterized primarily by the desire to unify and standardize management documentation, the development of common national rules of documentation. The documents of the Ukrainian SSR are the foundation for the study of domestic documentary history from the beginning of the postwar development of the republic to the formation of independent Ukraine. Research of documentary sources of information allows to clearly record the levels and directions of interests of the national scientific community to the specified period and its documentary base. In turn, the study presents the results of the analysis on the topic of documentation of management activities on the pages of professional research studios. The results of the contribution of researchers to the scientific life of the country are processed. It is emphasized that professional periodicals on document science should be perceived as a center for the formation of fundamentally new, unique knowledge given the historical component or prospects for development by covering a particular problem of documentation. Periodicals are an important historical source that can enrich the historiographical and historical reproduction of the evolution of documentation, to identify various differences of the chosen era. The prospects of further scientific research of publications of other historical periods concerning the issue of documentation of management in the USSR, as well as monitoring of future works of the domestic scientific community and their scientometric factors for increasing interest in this historical period among students, teachers, scientists and all interested citizens. The importance and relevance of the study is noted given that the vast majority of normative and methodological documents in the field of documentation, created in this historical period, are still valid today, which automatically makes them the basis of modern documentary science in independent Ukraine.