Scientific-research paleography practice for students from Petrozavodsk State University was conducted from June, 29 till July, 3 at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS. First-year, second-year and third-year students from the Department of History participated in this practice. During the period of practice the scholars of the Institute delivered summarizing lectures and carried out several practical studies on different subjects concerning Russian and European paleography, sigillography (sphragistics) and some other problems of source studies of Middle Ages and Modern History.