Abstract
The modern period of the formation and development of historical knowledge is characterized by agradual increase in the number of film-, photo- and audible documents created (as known as audiovisual documents).To a certain extent, based on the scope and scale of the events recorded by the public and private life, it can bestated that this kind of historical sources becomes widespread. Therefore, there is a natural need to enrich and expandscientific and scientific-methodological concepts of film-, photo-, audible documents as archival storage facilities andhistorical sources. In them, as well as on traditional information carriers, the history of society is reflected and theybecome available for political, social, economic, cultural and other historical research. Information and cognitiveproperties of visual and sound sources containing historical information are obvious. They act as unique means ofcomprehension of reality thanks to which it is possible to receive visual and figurative (film- and photo-documents)and sound (phono- (audible) documents) idea of real events. One of the specific sources of studying of national historyare the film photophonodocuments which are formed in activity of the specialized and other institutions which areactively creating this type of documents. They carry audiovisual information on socio-political, economic, cultural lifeof society.The study of the history of the newest period is impossible without the involvement of audiovisual documents,although they actually remain not in demand and not implemented in practice as a source of historical research. Likeother types of historical sources, they remain relevant and important as a means of preserving social memory. The valueof audiovisual information for the formation of a social memory history today is an indisputable fact. In the modernworld, the information capabilities of audiovisual sources, their ability to act as a unique means of comprehendingreality, through which one can get a visual and imaginative representation of facts and events of real life, as well assolve the traditional problems of scientific knowledge, are actualized.