摘要：The article presents the most significant intellectual achievements of the Russian historians in the field of historical study of local lore, regional and local history of the beginning of the XXI century in the conditions of radical transformations of the Russian historical science, its academic and high school structures, metropolitan and regional communities of the Russian scientists, their scientific communication connections and interactions with the western historians-regionalists are presented in article. There is p the attempt to consider the Soviet society through a prism of a combination and integration micro and macroapproaches in a locus of regional researches is made in this work. Methodological approaches of "modern local history" are considered in comparison with the developed local history practicians of an historiography. The authors comes to a conclusion about the beginning of the new period in the history of the local history movement connected with rehabilitation of traditional methods of an historiography, but on the new methodological basis with the purpose to save national historiographic traditions and to try to break the barriers existing in science.
