The book contains materials of a scientific conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the uprising in Yaroslavl, organized with the participation of members "Memorial" and NTS. The speeches of the participants assess in a new way the events of one of the dramatic episodes of the civil war in Russia, for the first time a number of documentary materials from central and local archives are introduced into scientific circulation, the memoirs of the leader of the uprising, Colonel A.P. Perkhurov, General K.I. Gopper are printed. The publication is illustrated with maps and photographs showing the course of the uprising and the results of the bombing of the city by the Bolsheviks