Abstract
Тhe article emphasizes the relevance of increasing interest in archival materials and retrospective documents in order to make a true assessment of historical events, assessing the current state of the soul and scientific culture. The adopted state programs and projects have made significant changes to the structure and functioning of archiving in Kazakhstan and set new goals. The most important is the analysis of the scientific, organizational and methodological work of the scientific institution of the “National Center for Archeography and Source Studies” in the framework of the state program “Cultural Heritage”. The direct work of the Center was to search, register, save and publish historical documents relating to the history of Kazakhstan in foreign archival funds. The concept of “Foreign Archival Kazakhstan” was founded, a recommendation was given to expand the functions of the center, which has a significant impact on the formation and development of national archeography.