Social and economic history of the Central Chernozem Region between the 16th and 17th centuries: the review of the sources

The author considers the features of the source database of documents on the socio-political history of the modern region of the Central Chernozem between the 16th and 17th centuries. The article proposes to single out several groups of sources on the basis of a separate scientific problem. The use of the probabilistic-statistical method seems to be promising. It allows taking into account possible actions of random factors, what is fundamentally important in studying of socio-economic history of the region.