Includes: reports on the history of the establishment and activity of the Council, its Statute; protocols of sessions of the Council Presidium, its commissions and subcommissions; protocols of scientific council sessions (after 1964); shorthand reports of the sessions and plenary sessions of the Council; annual and perspective plans of research in the Council, its commissions and other astronomical institutions; annual accounts of the Council activity, of activity of its commissions and astronomical institutions; accounts of the research in the Kuibyshevskaya and Zubchaninovskaya observatories; accounts to the International Astronomical Union concerning astronomical research in the USSR after 1947; orders of the chairmen to the Council (after 1944); staff and financial documentation; reports of Soviet scientists to Congresses of the International Astronomical Union (V. A. Ambartzumyan, A. N. Deutsch, M. S. Zverev, V. G. Fesenkov, G. A. Shain, and others to 8th Congress in Rome in 1952; V. V. Vitkevich, V. L. Ghinzburg, S. B. Pikel'ner, V. S. Troitskii, I. S. Shklovskii, B. M. Chikhachev and others to 9th Congresss in Dublin in 1955); materials of the Organizing Committee of the 10th Congresss of the International Astronomical Union in Moscow (1954-1955); materials concerning the membership of the Astronomical Council and its fellows in the Union and other international astronomical organizations and participation in their activity; proceedings of the conferences and meetings organized by the Council (Meeting on the Cosmogony in 1938, the Conference on Celestial Mechanics and the All-union Gravimetric meeting in 1940, the Latitude Conference in 1949, the 2nd Meteorite Conference in 1950, the Conference on the Photoobservations of the Artifical Earth Satellites in 1958, among others); correspondence with foreign astronomical institutions on book exchange, on participation in solar research, on coordination in observations on variable stars, on observations on artificial earth satellites, etc.; correspondence with institutions of the Academy about publishing the Council proceedings, about construction of the great telescope, about participation in the international astronomical programs, etc.