Personal archive fund of academician I.G. Budac (1916-1974)

In the article, the personal archive fund of the academician I.G. Budac (1916–1974) is valued and placed in the scientific circuit. The biographical milestones, the main results of the scientific-didactic activity, the research directions and the most important scientific works of the historian I.G. Budac are presented. The fund is made up of three sections of the inventory made up of archival documents: a) extracts of diplomas from Akkerman, Hotin, Soroca, Iași, Chișinău, Bălți, Orhei, etc.; b) copies of investigations in the field of the history of economic development and social-political movement in Bessarabia in the second half of the 19th century; c) photocopies regarding naval transport and commercial policy on the Dniester, Prut, Danube; the main commercial ports and the construction of railways, etc.