The collection is compiled from archival documents, publications of the central and local press, reflecting unjustified repressions in the USSR and in the Arkhangelsk region in 1937-1938. and the process of rehabilitation of repressed northerners. Readers can get acquainted with documents that have been kept in archives for decades under the heading “secret” and “highly secret”. Based on these documents, the author-compilers highlight an unknown page in the history of the first composition of the Arkhangelsk Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which was defeated in the tragic 1937.