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Digital collections on the site of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum. They contain images of art from Russia and Western Europe during various historical periods, but can be filtered by country and/or date of creation to find Soviet art.
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Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
Several digitized books from the rare book collection of the Aginskaya Regional Library (Zabaykalsky Krai), including publications in old Mongol script and the Buryat translations of Russian classical literary works.
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A website with numerous full-text thick journals from the 1920s. It is part of a website on 20th-century Russian (primarily Soviet) literature supported by the Soros Fund.
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Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
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Numerous well-organized online exhibits of archival documents from Leningrad oblast, covering various topics in the region's history.
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Archival information portal for archives in Leningrad Oblast. You can find useful sources under "Projects" (on homepage), "Thematic Databases" (under the "LOGAV" tab), and "Electronic Exhibitions" sections.
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Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
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A lot of interesting and informative digital projects based on archival documents from seven major archives of Saint-Petersburg, covering plenty of well-known and less-known topics in Russian and Soviet history.
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Digital museum of film strips (диафильм) that contains a lot of Soviet film strips for children on various topics, as well as information about relevant artists and the technologies of film strips.
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The Digital library of Astrakhan Oblast Scientific Library contains more than 5000 documents and publications on the region's history, culture, peoples, and other aspects of life. It also provides access to digitized issues of Soviet-era regional periodicals.
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A website dedicated to mosaics in Tajikistan's architecture and artwork. On this site, users can browse photos of Tajikistan's mosaic artworks, locate them on a digital map, and learn about the artists and history of the mosaics.
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Online exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art. Most of the exhibitions are dedicated to prominent Soviet Belarusian writers, poets, artists, and other cultural celebrities.
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A huge digital library providing open access to digital copies of Soviet-era Belarusian academic and pedagogical publications, as well as documents and publications of the university.
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Digital library that contains more than two thousands digital copies of Soviet-era publications, most of which are literary works and humanities studies.
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Digital Library of the Birobidzhan Oblast Universal Scientific Library that contains a lof of interesting books, periodicals, as well as archival documents related to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Apart from Soviet-era academic and popular publications on the region, the digital library also…
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Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
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An interesting media resource. On the website, you can search for information about films, photographs, and audio materials at Kazakhstan's Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recording. The digital copies of some photographs and audio recordings are directly accessible from the…
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Topics include the Great Terror and Soviet political repressions in the region, local cultural development, local intellectuals, etc.
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Digital publications of the Central State Archive of Kirov Oblast, including several document collections on the Great Patriotic War and several referential materials on the archive's fonds and the region's Soviet political leaders.
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Online exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, based on extensive archival documents.
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A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
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A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
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A collection of Russian posters from 1919-1989 from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.
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140 posters, Krokodil covers, and clippings, most created by members of the Fighting Pencil (Boevoi karandash) artists’ collective, satirizing bureaucratic abuses and inefficiencies during the last decades of the Soviet period.
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A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users…
A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.
A YouTube playlist with hundreds of Soviet Georgian films.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Tajik films.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Turkmen films.
A YouTube playlist of more than 200 Soviet films and TV series produced by Dovzhenko Film Studio in Ukraine.
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The largest digital cultural heritage portal in Lithuania which has been in operation for more than 15 years. Currently, it contains over 280,000 items of cultural heritage. Its content is created and new additions to the portal are made by 24 institutions including libraries, museums, and archives.
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A website that collects personal accounts, old photographs, and other types of materials on the city of Tashkent. A lot of posts on the website are dedicated to the city's history.
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Digitized books and periodicals from the collections of the Far East State Scientific Library, among which there are numerous Soviet publications on the Far East.
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Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
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Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
The official YouTube Channel of the Azerbaijanfilm Film Studio, where you can find Soviet movies of various genres produced in Azerbaijan.
The official YouTube Channel of the Kazakhfilm Film Studio, where you can find hundreds of Soviet movies of various genres produced in Kazakhstan.
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