The article represents databases for research information support on the problems related to providing northern regions with reliable equipment and technologies. It gives characteristics of information resources on cold regions engineering topic from foreign and Russian databases: IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, ASCE Library, VINITI RAS, “Scientific Sibirica”. It analyses a documentary flow “Northern engineering and technology” selected from information array “Problems of the North”, which is a constituent part of DB with current replenishment “Scientific Sibirica” generated by the Department of Scientific Bibliography of the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The documentometric analysis (a kind of bibliometric one) shows the chronological, quantitative, type-species, thematic structures of Russian documents.