Weekly completely secret reports of the secret department of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR 1927-1929, which were prepared on the basis of operational sources and appointed to the heads of Soviet state security agencies, highlight the political position of the intelligentsia in Ukraine and its relationship with the authorities, reveal new facets of the life and work of writers, educators, science and culture. Rare documents convey the spirit of the totalitarian era, the brewing of mass political reprisals against the Ukrainian intelligentsia, the catastrophe of the Holodomor, the Great Terror.