Includes memos (dokladnyie zapiski), informtion (spravki) on the history of the Institute and its activity; protocols and shorthand reports of sessions of the Scientific Council; protocols of sessions of department and labors [sic] headmasters; protocols and shorthand reports of sessions of the Council for Seismology, 1949-1954; orders for the Institute; staff and financial documentation; perspective plans on the problems "The Development and Improvement of the Seismological and Electromagnetic Methods of Prospect," "The Discovery and Development of the Methods of Earthquakes Prediction," 1952-1955; correspondence and different materials on distribution of new seismological station upon the territory of the USSR, on seismic division into districts of the zone of the Main Turkmenian Canal and that of Kurile and Kamchatka, on the geophysical characteristis of the main structural elements of the South part of the Russian plain (platforma) and nextdoor regions, and others.