Documents from the Russian State Archive of Modern History and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation on the activities of the highest party-state body in the USSR - Politburo (Presidium) of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the 1950-1960s. For publication, a set of draft protocol records of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, which were kept by the head of the general department of the Central Committee of the CPSU V. N. Malin, transcripts of the meetings and the resolutions of the Central Committee of the CPSU discussed at them, which had the marks "Top Secret," the marks "Special Folder."