The scientific journal ‘From the Archives of the VUCHK-GPU-NKVD-KGB’ adheres to a policy of open access to published material, recognising the priority of the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and exchange of knowledge for global social progress.

Articles in the journal are published under Creative Commons licences: CC BY-NC-ND.

This ‘CC BY-NC-ND’ mark means that the document is a copyrighted work, but its authors have decided to apply an open Creative Commons licence to it. This type of licence allows the author of the work to make it freely available on the Internet, granting all or part of the economic rights belonging to the author.

This open licence allows the editorial board and readers to use the works subject to the following principles:

1. Mandatory indication of the author's name and reference to the relevant type of licence (BY).

2. Full or partial use of the work for commercial purposes is prohibited (NC).

3. It is prohibited to remix, transform, and build upon the materials of the scientific article, as well as to distribute this modified material (ND).

Thus, this licence allows users to freely read, download, copy content for educational and scientific purposes, and distribute it with mandatory attribution.