The dissertation's research is dedicated to the learning of the scientific-methodical principles of the state archives' acquisition as an example of the Kyiv State Archives in the years of 1962-2002.On the basis of the historical sources' analysis and scientific literature the scientific-theoretical principles of the state archives' acquisition have been researched and the work's forms and the content of the state archives with physical and juridical persons as the sources of the acquisition have been found out. There have been analyzed the normative and methodical basis of the state archives' work in the acquisition, and cleared up its conceptual differences during the soviet period (in the years of 1962-1991) and the period of state independence of Ukraine (past 1991) There have been revealed the main stages in the acquisition's process of the Kyiv State Archives. The directions of the scientific research have been found out and given the practical advices, aimed at the improvement of the Ukrainian state archives.
