It is still of great significance as it contains a lot of information from different sources. In the 1980s – 1990s, the investigations of icon-painting were carried out by Novoselskaya E.G. and Vorontsova L.M., they mainly concerned the monuments acquired between the 1950s and early 1990s and the icons of the Lavra collection restored by that time.

In 1983, there was published the album-catalogue of T.N. Manushina “Early Russian Embroidery in the Zagorsk Museum Collection” (M., 1983), for the first time presenting the whole collection of the 15th – 17th century ornamental embroidery with the scientific attribution based on the Monastery Donation Books and Inventories.

Since the late 1970s, they constantly published the results of the investigation of the Monastery documents, ancient manuscripts, books in the works of E.N. Klitina, T.A. Popesky, B.M. Kloss, S.V. Nikolayeva, L.A. Kirichenko. The great event in national history was the edition “Vkladnaya kniga Troitse-Sergieva Monastyrya XVII veka” (M., 1987) [the Donation Book of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery]. It is a unique source of the 17th century, providing information on the Monastery art collection and medieval culture of North-Eastern Rus.

The catalogue of Spirina L.M. “Knigi kirillicheskoi pechati XVI – XVIII vv. Zagorskogo istoriko-khudozhestvennogo muzeya-zapovednika” (M., 1981) {The 16th – 18th century Books in Cyrillic” is of great interest for specialists. In the museum practice it was nearly the only case of such investigation of the collection mainly formed in the 1950s – 1970s, as the result of the examination of churches in the Moscow Region.