The Supreme Administration of the Northern Region (VUSO; Severnaya Oblast; Russian: Верховное управление Северной области) was an anti-Bolshevik left-wing Allied government part of the White movement during the Russian Civil War.

On 2 August 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region was declared in a coup by White Russians, led by Captain Georgi Chaplin, on the eve of the Western invasion of Arkhangelsk.

[1] British diplomats had traveled to Arkhangelsk in preparation of the invasion, and Major-general Frederick Poole had coordinated the coup with Chaplin.

[3] General Poole ran Archangelsk as Commander of British troops in Northern Russia, declaring martial law and banning the red flag, despite the decision of the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region to fly it.

[4] On 6 September 1918, Chairman Nikolai Tchaikovsky was ousted by the White Russian military in Arkhangelsk and incarcerated in a monastery on the nearby Solovetsky Islands.