Thanks to their efforts the Museum resumed publications presenting results of serious investigations of the Monastery history and the Monastery collections. The results of the research of the Lavra heritage were published in the comprehensive monograph “The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. Artistic Monuments” (M., 1968).

After a long break they published the fundamental catalogue “Proizvedeniya melkoi plastiki 13 – 17 vv. v sobranii muzeya”. T.V. Nikolayeva, Zagorsk, 1960. (Small-Size Sculptures of the 13th – 17th century in the Museum Collection). It is the most substantial work on this original Old Russian art. In the next period catalogues were the main task of the scientific investigation. They covered all parts of the collection and provided materials for published catalogues, albums, articles.

The 1970s introduced some interesting publications, recording acquisitions and research work of the previous decades. Among them there were albums and exhibition catalogues (Kalmykova L.E., “Russkoye narodnoye goncharstvo”. M., 1976 [“Russian Pottery”]); Kruglova O.V. “Russkiye pryalki”. M., 1971. [Russian Distaffs”]).

One of the best publications was O.V. Kruglova’s book “Traditional Russian Carved and Painted Woodwork” (M., 1974), presenting the richest materials collected during her expeditions to the northern regions, where objects of everyday peasant life were real works of art.