The article deals with the topical issue of interaction between higher educational establishments in Ukraine and archives, determines the directions of archival and pedagogical work of students of the Philological faculty of Rivne State Humanitarian University, specifies the use of publications in the media as a historical source, suggests a methodology for studying documents (on the example of the newspaper Volyn (1941–1944) as a factor of increasing professionalism and personal development. The advantages of archival research for a philologist lie in the ability to work with previously unused or less usedinformation, the discovery of unexplored literary problems, new source studies, possibility to prove and present the results through the support of facts recorded in historical sources, refutation or confirmation of previously substantiated hypotheses, objective assessment of the silenced or distorted historical events, consideration of a literary theme through the prism of a certain era, on an interdisciplinary basis, the disclosure of artistic value of certain non-fiction texts, learning and comparison of past and present cultural experience of the region. The archival method includes a set of consistent, interrelated works with collected and archived documents, in particular modeling of lessons of innovative types (literary historical studies, conferences, contests, etc.), scenarios of cultural and educational events, excursions to archives, creation of literary and journalistic texts, supplementing the content of historical and literary courses with a regional component, etc.