The article is devoted to the work of the personnel of the Astrakhan province archive at the detection, registration and concentration of the archive funds of the region in 1920s; the author traces the ways of receiving documents from the departmental archives to the Astrakhan province archive, indicates the most important order documents of the central and local authorities on the acquisition of the regional archives. The text material is accompanied with the statistical data on the quantity of incoming funds. The article is based on the report documentation kept in the State Archive of the Astrakhan region.
