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The purpose of the study is to show the illegal activities of the Omsk organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the early 1920s. The author used new archival documents that can help to disclose hitherto unknown episodes in the activities of the Omsk municipal and provincial organizations of the Right-Wing Socialist Revolutionaries under Soviet rule. The presented study applied comparative, structural and logical methods of analysis. Based on the interrogation records related to one of the leaders of the SRs’ local party organization in Omsk the author reconstructs a picture of Party life in Omsk in the early 1920s; describes how the SRs went underground and restored their Party structures at the municipal and provincial levels; analyzes personal composition of the executive bodies. The analysis of Lunegov’s interrogation records allowed to obtain a new information about the organizational structure, quantitative and qualitative composition of the executive bodies of revolutionary organizations in that period. Special attention is paid to the analysis of basic activities of the Omsk municipal committee and illegal forms of the SRs’ work with the population. The author believes that the party leaders were not able to deploy a large-scale party work among both the SRs and various groups of population during the period under study. The author considers the fact that the local bodies of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission had quite detailed information about the illegal activities of the Right-SRs, except for the intra-party information. This gap was partially compensated during Lunegov’s interrogations. Based on the obtained information the author concluded that the Omsk SRs tried to intensify their party activities with the beginning of the new economic policy. This motivated the Bolshevik government and the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission’s local authorities to take appropriate actions which paralyzed the activities of the Right-SRs and then helped to initiate the process of self-dissolution of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the Omsk province.