In the era of universal secondary education, which gave a person the illusion that he can not only read, but also write - and immediately books - the phenomenon of Hyperborea became unusually popular in mass literature. The secrets of history have always attracted the reading public, distracting them from pressing problems and taking them to the depths of mysticism. Unlike pseudoscientific opuses, the book of Anatoly Belyakov and Oleg Matveychev is a scientific work that meets all the criteria necessary for this. And at the same time, this is a call for our humanitarian community to take care of themselves, to pay attention to their roots and origins. Setting out the history of the concept of "Hyperborea," the authors, within the framework of one metaphor, reveal European history, tracking the evolution of certain concepts and intellectual models that connect events into something whole, into the "great chain of being."