In the article, for the first time in historiography, on the basis of the personal fund of the head of the music broadcasting editorial office of the Kuibyshev television studio, a personal pensioner of local importance, Valentin Efimovich Shpichinets, which is stored in the Central State Archive of the Samara Region, the life and work of one of the founders of regional music television broadcasting is reconstructed. The novelty of the study based on source analysis, chronological and biographical methods lies in the fact that for the first time documents of the personal fund of V. E. Shpichinets F. R.-4040 are analyzed, its information potential and use cases are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the description of the structure of the fund, which contains 52 items of storage, dated from 1950 to 1995, the review of groups of documents, the characteristics of the species composition (clerical work, ego-documents, including dedicatory inscriptions, photographs, television broadcast scripts). It has been established that the materials of the fund make it possible to recreate the stages of the biography and activities of V. E. Shpichinets (military, educational, professional, public), whose working and retirement periods of life are associated with Kuibyshev (Samara). The documents demonstrate a wide range of business and personal connections of Shpichinets with well-known Soviet and some foreign composers, performers, singers, representatives of the theater and circus spheres. The names of the most popular musical television projects of Valentin Efimovich are given. It is determined that the diverse documents of the personal fund are promising in terms of further use in the study of the history of regional television, musical education, domestic musical culture of the second half of the 20th century, and so on.

In the article, for the first time in historiography, on the basis of the personal fund of the head of the music broadcasting editorial office of the Kuibyshev television studio, a personal pensioner of local importance, Valentin Efimovich Shpichinets, which is stored in the Central State Archive of the Samara Region, the life and work of one of the founders of regional music television broadcasting is reconstructed. The novelty of the study based on source analysis, chronological and biographical methods lies in the fact that for the first time documents of the personal fund of V. E. Shpichinets F. R.-4040 are analyzed, its information potential and use cases are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the description of the structure of the fund, which contains 52 items of storage, dated from 1950 to 1995, the review of groups of documents, the characteristics of the species composition (clerical work, ego-documents, including dedicatory inscriptions, photographs, television broadcast scripts). It has been established that the materials of the fund make it possible to recreate the stages of the biography and activities of V. E. Shpichinets (military, educational, professional, public), whose working and retirement periods of life are associated with Kuibyshev (Samara). The documents demonstrate a wide range of business and personal connections of Shpichinets with well-known Soviet and some foreign composers, performers, singers, representatives of the theater and circus spheres. The names of the most popular musical television projects of Valentin Efimovich are given. It is determined that the diverse documents of the personal fund are promising in terms of further use in the study of the history of regional television, musical education, domestic musical culture of the second half of the 20th century, and so on.