The article examines the potential documents of management and record keeping in the study of the specificity of Soviet censorship in Kazakhstan. These archival documents were used to analyze State Central Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan (SCA RK) and Archive of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (AP RK). To conduct the study, we relied on the following types of archival materials: directive, regulatory and administrative, information and reference. The given documents formed in the system of state-party control of the sphere of literature and publishing. The aim of this control is to form the political line of the Communist Party in the minds of Kazakh population. The basis of ideological and political control is the mechanism of the censorship the shape of which starts from 1992.

Documents of management and record keeping materials in the funds of archival institutions of Kazakhstan contribute to the study of the formation of the mechanism and direction of activity in the Soviet period of the General Administration of literature and publishing of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Glavlit KazSSR): ensuring the protection of the State secrets, political and ideological control over printed materials; work status of obllit (Regional Department of Literature and publishing house); withdrawal and cleaning of bookselling network and libraries from “hostile ideological literatures”; crossing out preliminary censorship and violations; manning employees of Glavlit KazSSR.