The article introduces researchers to the archive of the North Caucasus Highlands Research Institute of History and Linguistics (1926-1937), which was the object of repressions in 1937 (currently, it makes part of the State Archive of the Stavropol Territory). The authors analyze N.Ya. Marr's «new doctrine of language», its correlation with the method of linguistic paleontology. The features of N.Ya. Marr's doctrine in the general paradigm of the Soviet linguistics are identified, the possibilities of its use in modern research of the sphere of concepts are discussed.
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