Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
Full catalog of books and monographs published by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
Full catalog of publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
Digital library of the Russian State Library for Children, containing extensive digitized pre- and post-1917 Russian and Soviet printed materials publications for/about children.
National digital library of Tatarstan, containing more than 11,000 digital copies of various publications, including a great number of Soviet-era books and periodicals.
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Khakassia, containing many interesting publications in Russian and Khakassian languages: local publications from the Soviet period, materials on Khakassian folklore and local cultural development, etc.
A section on the local study of Kamchatka on the website of the Kamchatka Krasheninnikov Regional Scientific Library. It provides links to downloadable PDF versions of publications on the ethnic minorities of Kamchatka. Many of these publications are Soviet ethnographic studies.
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.
Digital library of the Vladimir Gorky Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing digital copies of more than 4000 publications on the oblast as well as on more general topics. Its book and newspaper collections are particularly rich.
Interesting digital library of Vologda Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing thousands of digitized books and periodicals, and more other types of materials. It also has several interesting thematic collections, such as "Russian forest" and "Russian America". Notably, the digital library…
Full-text databases of Novgorod Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing more than 200 downloadable Soviet publications from/about Novgorod Oblast.
Online database of Armenian periodicals and serial publications from the pre-revolution period through the contemporary times. It includes many Soviet-era journal issues and book series.
Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi, containing digital copies of extensive old publications on Ukrainian culture and history.
Digital archive of periodicals of Uzbekistan from the Soviet times till today. Though most digital copies in this archive are contemporary issues, users still can find quite a few digitized Soviet publications, such as Pravda Vostoka, Zvezda Vostoka, Vechernii Tashkent, etc.
Digital archive that contains abundant digitized documents from different Ukrainian archives from the imperial and Soviet periods. Notably, it has a collection of criminal cases from the KGB archive of Crimea. The website also has several online exhibitions.
Digital library of the National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea, containing hundreds of digital copies of Soviet-era publications on local culture, history, folklore, and development.
Thematic collections of the digital library of the National Library of Yakutia, containing a great number of Soviet publications on local culture, ethnic groups, political institution, socio-economic development, etc.
A special collection of the digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha consisting of publications related to different ethnic groups in Yakutia, including scholarly research, periodicals, and published official documents.
Digital library of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing digital copies of Russian and Soviet literary publications, including literary works, literary studies, and literary journals editions, from the imperial period till today.
Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period. It also has a lot of publications and manuscripts in Finnish language.
Digital library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library. Currently, it has four collections: digitized issues of the journal "На севере дальнем" (from 1955 till today); digitized issues of the newspaper "Советская Колыма" (1936-1954); folklore of indigenous peoples; and works of Aleksandr…
Digital library created by the Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University. It contains digital copies of rare books, manuscripts, and periodicals related to science and education. In particular, it has a big collection of Kharkiv publications.
Online exhibitions presenting Soviet photographs about Mari El, covering topics such as the Great Patriotic War and cultural celebrities of the Republic.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast that contains digital copies of imperial-era metric books and Soviet-era house books from the 1920s to the 1940s.
The collection includes works by employees of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the history of the region and various scientific areas of Finno-Ugric studies (linguistics, literary criticism, folklore, history, art…
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.