Digitalisierte Zeitungstitel (List of digitized newspapers)
subject: culture
subject: ideology
subject: propaganda
subject: emigre
description: Digitized newspaper editions of the Berlin State Library, including several Russian emigres newspapers, such as Novoe slovo, Naš mir, and Nakanune.
creator: Berlin State Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1915-1944
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Azerbaijani
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia
coverage: Azerbaijan

Большевистский порядок в Грузии. В 2-х томах (Bolshevik Order in Georgia. 2 Volumes.)
subject: Great Terror
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
description: Two-volume document collection and oral history interview collection on the Great Terror in Georgia. The first volume includes six long interviews with the descendants of the victims of the Great Terror in Georgia, and the second volumes consists of archival documents and statistical data on the Great Terror in Georgia.
creator: АИРО-XXI
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1937-1938
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Georgia
coverage: South Caucasus

New York Times Article Archive
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: church
subject: religion
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Lenin
subject: Stalin
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: Cold War
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
creator: New York Times
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1851-2022
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Большой террор в Абхазии (Абхазская АССР): 1937-1938 гг. (The Great Terror in Abkhazia (Abkhazian ASSR): 1937-1938)
subject: Great Terror
subject: Purges
subject: repression
description: Three-volume document collection on the Great Terror in Abkhazia.
creator: Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1937-1938
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Abkhazia

100 лет Государственной архивной службе Воронежской области (100th Anniversary of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast)
subject: Voronezh Oblast
subject: archive
description: Document collection including photographs and a few archival documents about the work of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast. It is displayed on this organization's website.
creator: Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-2022
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Voronezh Oblast

Человек, Политик, Дипломат (к 90-летию со дня рождения В. И. Воротникова) (Man, Politician, Diplomat (To the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Vorotnikov))
subject: Vitalii Vorotnikov
subject: diplomacy
description: Gulag
description: deportation
description: dekulakization
description: mass operations
description: purges
description: Great Terror
description: political repression/political policing
description: some good documents
creator: Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1926-2012
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: military strategy
description: Site with numerous military maps that describe the events of the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Andrey Lopatnev
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

Бессмертный барак (Immortal Barack)
subject: Gulag
subject: deportation
subject: dekulakization
subject: mass operations
subject: Great Terror
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: personal narrative
subject: political repression
subject: purge
description: Memorial site devoted to the victims of Soviet political repression. It is primarily devoted to collecting information about victims, but also includes numerous archival documents and photographs of use to historians.
creator: Andrei Shalaiev
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1960
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Russian Revolution Documents
subject: Nicholas II
subject: Alexander Kerensky
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
description: Page from an educational site about the Russian Revolution. It includes numerous major documents relating to the events of the revolution in English translation.
creator: Alpha History
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1881-1924
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

History Portal
subject: culture
subject: Azerbaijan
subject: history
subject: nationalities
subject: national culture
description: Website devoted to the history of Azerbaijan. It includes numerous documents (orders, congress proceedings, reports, notes, etc.) on the subject, as well as some images of Soviet-era currency.
creator: Aliya Gurbanova
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: Azerbaijani
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: South Caucasus

Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
subject: railroad
subject: St. Petersburg
subject: urban history
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: military
subject: Karelia
subject: Vyborg
subject: international relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Winter War
subject: local history
subject: personal narrative
subject: transportation
subject: Soviet-Finnish relations
description: Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
creator: Aleksei Shvarev
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Finland
coverage: Germany

Добровольческий корпус (Volunteer Corps)
subject: White Army
subject: emigre
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: personal narrative
description: A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
creator: Aleksandr Makarov
creator: Elena Glebova
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe
coverage: global

Демография России и Российской империи на интернете (The Demography of Russia and the Russian Empire on Internet)
subject: statistics
subject: late Soviet period
description: Resource on the demography of tsarist and Soviet Russia compiled by two academics, Aleksandr Avdeev of Moscow State University and Alain Blum of Institut national d'études démographiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. It contains a number of demographic data and maps.
creator: Aleksandr Avdeev
creator: Alaim Blum
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1959-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: soldiers
subject: memory
subject: personal narrative
description: Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
creator: Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: personal narrative
description: Commemorative page for the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War on the official site of the Administration of the Ordzhonikidze Raion. It contains a few resources about the experience of the war by citizens of the district, as well as a few reference sources about the contents of relevant archives.
creator: Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)

Александр Солженицын: Из-под глыб. Рукописи, документы, фотографии. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: From Under the Rocks. Manuscripts, Documents, Photographs )
subject: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: literature & arts
description: Online exhibit about Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the website of the Russian Historical Society. It contains documents, photographs, and physical objects about his life and work.
creator: Russian Historical Society
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-2008
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Коллекции (Collections)
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: painting
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: culture
subject: propaganda
description: Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
creator: A. P. Anashkin et al.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai
coverage: Russia

База патентов СССР (Database of Patents of the USSR)
subject: patent
subject: law
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: engineering
subject: light industry
subject: economy
subject: agriculture
subject: welfare
subject: food
subject: copyright
subject: natural science
subject: legal source
description: Database of copyright certificates and patents for inventions issued in the USSR.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1924-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A VK page devoted to various historical sources. It contains a motley group of sources on various topics in Russian history (each post is on a separate theme) and is mostly made up of the posts of "student-istorik," an account for humor and educational resources created by students of the Moscow State University historical faculty.
creator: @student-istorik
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Архив самиздата (The Samizdat Archive )
subject: samizdat
subject: Yuri Daniel
subject: Andrei Amal'rik
subject: Aleksandr Sviashch
subject: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
subject: Vladimir Albrecht
subject: Vladimir Bukovsky
description: Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
creator: "Vekhi" Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1961-1981
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Виртуальные выставки (Virtual Exhibits of Russian State Archive in Samara)
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: industry
subject: economics
subject: biography
subject: economy
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: architecture
description: Collection of online exhibits on various aspects of economic, cultural, and social life in the Samara oblast, as well as the scientific/technological achievements of the region.
creator: Russian State Archive in Samara
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Samara Oblast

Уникальные проекты страны Советов. Историко-документальная выставка. (Unique Projects of the nations of Soviets: A Historico-documentary Exhibit)
subject: architecture
subject: economy
subject: transportation
description: Online exhibit of the Russian state archive in Samara. It presents documents and photographs relating to several large Soviet technological, scientific, and construction projects.
creator: Russian State Archive in Samara
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1970
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
subject: Astrakhan Oblast
subject: Akhtubinsk
subject: urban history
subject: construction
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Battle of Stalingrad
subject: culture
subject: Ikrianinskii District
subject: fishing
subject: canning
subject: agriculture
subject: collective farm
subject: economy
subject: labor
subject: natural gas
subject: industry
subject: youth
subject: archive
subject: scholarship
subject: hospital
subject: healthcare
subject: medicine
subject: women
subject: evacuation
subject: letter
subject: pioneer organization
subject: veteran
description: A number of exhibits on social and economic life in the Astrakhan oblast, as well as on the participation of individuals and groups within the region in the Great Patriotic War. There is also some material on politics and administration.
creator: Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2000
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Astrakhan Oblast
coverage: Russia

Электронный архив Новосибирской области (Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
subject: Novosibirsk
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Electronic archive of Novosibirsk Oblast archive. It contains photographs of aspects of economic and social life in Novosibirsk and a number of maps of the region, as well as a few other documents on the Soviet period.
creator: Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1913-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast

Документы (Documents)
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Stalinism
subject: Party organization
subject: political institution
subject: intellectual
subject: church
subject: religion
subject: economy
subject: Perestroika
subject: collapse of the USSR
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Collection of archival documents on various topics in Soviet history.
creator: Viacheslav Grigorievich Shcherbakov
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Collections of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
subject: Cold War
subject: Warsaw Pact
subject: East Bloc
subject: Soviet-Indonesian Relations
subject: Indo-Soviet relations
subject: Soviet-Yugoslav relations
subject: Soviet-Swedish relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: NATO
subject: 1961 Berlin crisis
subject: KGB
subject: intelligence
description: Collection of archival documents from different countries on the global Cold War. Documents have been translated into English.
creator: Collections of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1990
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Poland
coverage: Indonesia
coverage: India
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Romania
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Yugoslavia
coverage: Sweden
coverage: Czechoslovakia

Princeton Slavic Collections
subject: art
subject: avant-garde
subject: protest
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: health
subject: mass media
subject: theater
subject: World War II
subject: children
subject: labor
subject: festival
subject: Brezhnev
subject: literature
subject: foreign relations
subject: industrialization
subject: agriculture
subject: education
subject: local history
subject: national security
subject: trade
subject: history
subject: environment
subject: food
subject: public health
subject: Stalin
subject: ecology
subject: urban planning
subject: police
subject: housing
subject: crime
subject: family
subject: music
subject: humor
subject: Revolution
subject: propaganda
subject: celebrity
subject: sport
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: Princeton University Library's digitized collections of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials. These collections include many rare and unique materials, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals. Princeton’s most intensive collecting foci in Slavic are Russian and Soviet literature; performing arts in Russia and the Soviet Union; Russian and Soviet visual culture; political, social, and intellectual history of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union, including the history of science and pseudoscience; Soviet illustrated periodicals; and contemporary politics and society.
creator: Princeton University Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-1972
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Germany

Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
subject: press
subject: science
subject: local administration
subject: culture
subject: social sciences
subject: humanities
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: local history
subject: intellectual
subject: natural science
subject: Tatar
description: Digital library of the Kazan Federal University, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of local periodical issues, books, manuscripts, university publications, and other types of materials. In particular, it has a huge newspaper collection, where you can find digitized local newspapers in different languages from the pre-Revolution era to today.
creator: Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazan
coverage: Russia
coverage: Tatarstan

Электронная библиотека Новосибирской государственной областной научной библиотеки (Digital Library of Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library)
subject: astronomy
subject: language
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: geography
subject: intellectual
subject: cartography
subject: infrastructure
subject: local history
subject: local study
subject: Revolution
subject: satire
subject: press
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: literature
subject: industrial development
subject: German
subject: everyday life
subject: avant-garde
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library that contains a great number of digital copies of publications on the history, culture, people, traditions, and everyday life of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberia in general.
creator: Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Far East

Публичная библиотека (Электронные книжные полки Вадима Ершова и К°) (Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°))
subject: science
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: press
subject: biology
subject: physics
subject: mathematics
subject: astronomy
subject: agriculture
subject: medicine
subject: public health
subject: philology
subject: philosophy
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: children
subject: poetry
subject: political science
subject: culture
subject: law
subject: energy
subject: cuisine
subject: natural science
subject: psychology
subject: transportation
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library developed by a group of Russian specialists. Here you can find tons of Soviet and contemporary books, journals, newspapers of all kinds, especially academic publications.
creator: Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
subject: Cold War
subject: diaspora
subject: social history
subject: everyday life
subject: World War II
subject: partisan
subject: refugee
subject: personal narrative
subject: profession
description: The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. The HPSSS’s value is compounded by the fact that it was compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework, making it accessible to a broad range of students and scholars.
creator: Harvard University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1945
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Austria
coverage: USA

Красноярский Меридиан. Электронная краеведческая библиотека (Krasnoyarsk Meridian. Digital Local Study Library)
subject: local study
subject: migration
subject: security service
subject: printing
subject: press
subject: education
subject: ecology
subject: environment
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: science
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Revolution
subject: secret police
subject: railroad
subject: sport
description: Digital local study library developed by the Krasnoyarsk State Universal Scientific Library. It contains a lot of Soviet-era local periodicals and books from/about the region.
creator: State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Krai
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Krasnoyarsk Krai
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Russia

Интегрированный банк "Законодательство России" (Integrated Bank "Legislation of Russia")
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: legal source
description: Online database of the official texts of federal and regional legislation of Russia from 1917 to today.
creator: State Legal Information System, Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: Online database
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

The Centropa Archive
subject: Jew
subject: Holocaust
subject: everyday life
subject: nationalities
subject: memory
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century.
creator: Centropa.org
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Online database
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: China
coverage: Poland
coverage: Czech Republic
coverage: Slovakia
coverage: Germany
coverage: Austria
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Slovenia
coverage: Serbia
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Romania
coverage: Western Europe
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Balkans

Kaardid Map Database
subject: cartography
subject: urban history
subject: urban planning
subject: architecture
description: A huge database of maps and other cartographic materials published in the territory of Estonia in different periods.
creator: National Archives of Estonia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1940-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Estonian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Baltics

FOTIS Rahvusarhiivi fotoinfosüsteem (FOTIS National Archive Photo Database)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: architecture
subject: culture
subject: everyday life
description: Photo database of the National Archives of Estonia, containing a huge number of photographs from different periods.
creator: National Archives of Estonia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1940-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Estonian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Baltics

Elektroninio archyvo informacinė sistema (EAIS) (Electronic Archive Information System (EAIS))
subject: everyday life
subject: diaspora
subject: foreign policy
subject: diplomacy
subject: diplomat
subject: dissident
subject: religion
subject: agriculture
subject: economy
subject: culture
subject: cinema
subject: children
subject: youth
subject: pioneer organization
subject: local administration
subject: police
subject: personal narrative
subject: political institution
description: Digital archival system of the archives of Lithuania, where you can easily access extensive digitized archival documents and finding aids of Lithuanian state archives.
creator: Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1940-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Lithuanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Baltics
coverage: USA
coverage: Norway
coverage: Brazil
coverage: Canada
coverage: Germany
coverage: UK

„Lietuvos ypatingojo archyvo saugomų skaitmeninių vaizdų archyvas“ (E-vaizdų archyvas) ("Archive of Digital Images Protected by the Lithuanian Special Archive" (E-Image Archive))
subject: secret police
subject: KGB
subject: security service
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Holocaust
subject: insurgency
subject: resistance
subject: nationalism
subject: nationalities
subject: culture
subject: NKVD
subject: Party organization
subject: political institution
subject: public health
subject: education
subject: science
subject: intellectual
subject: religion
subject: political repression
subject: sport
description: This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of video, film and audio documents confiscated or secretly made by the KGB.
creator: Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Lithuanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Baltics

Latvijas PSR VDK dokumenti (Latvian SSR KGB Documents)
subject: KGB
subject: security service
subject: local administration
subject: secret police
description: Digital archive of documents of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvia SSR, containing extensive documents about the structure, personnel, and operation of the KGB in Latvia.
creator: National Archives of Latvia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: Latvian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Baltics

eScriptorium
subject: humanities
subject: science
subject: religion
subject: law
subject: social sciences
subject: technology
subject: forestry
subject: agriculture
subject: urban planning
subject: medicine
subject: literature
subject: folklore
subject: economy
subject: intellectual
subject: natural science
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1950
format: Digital library
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kharkiv
coverage: Ukraine

E-resource - Центральниий державний архів громадських об'єднань України (Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: science
subject: agriculture
subject: forestry
subject: health
subject: medicine
subject: culture
subject: social sciences
subject: humanities
subject: literature
subject: natural science
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of the State Archive of Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine that provides access to the full-text reference apparatus of the archive and its digitized fonds. Digitized materials are available for viewing online, and non-digitized cases can be ordered to the archive reading room online through a personal account.
creator: Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Romania
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: England
coverage: Germany
coverage: Bessarabia
coverage: Poland
coverage: Volyn
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Galicia
coverage: Donbas
coverage: Russia
coverage: Kronshtadt
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Kuban
coverage: Kyiv
coverage: Luhansk
coverage: Odessa
coverage: Hungary
coverage: USSR
coverage: Chernihiv
coverage: Kharkiv

Центральный государственный архив кинофотодокументов и звукозаписей Республики Казахстан (Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
subject: cinema
subject: film
subject: culture
subject: leisure
subject: intellectual
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: tourism
subject: youth
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: festival
subject: religion
subject: Muslim
subject: Islam
subject: nationalities
subject: folk culture
subject: political institution
subject: political repression
subject: literature
subject: literature & arts
description: 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 website. The website also presents many interesting exhibitions of visual materials under the "Выставки" and "Медиа канал KFDZ" sections.
creator: Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Russia
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Tomsk
coverage: Orenburg
coverage: Central Asia

The Book Collection of the National Library of Latvia
subject: diaspora
subject: poetry
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: science
subject: library
subject: children
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: philosophy
subject: deportation
subject: art
subject: linguistics
subject: archaeology
subject: Jew
subject: nationalities
subject: urban planning
subject: theater
subject: language
subject: ethnology
subject: political institution
subject: folk culture
subject: folklore
subject: education
subject: mathematics
subject: economy
subject: fishing
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital books collection of the National Library of Latvia, providing open access to plentiful digitized Soviet Latvian books on various topics.
creator: National Library of Latvia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1940-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Latvian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Baltics

The Periodicals Collection of the National Library of Latvia
subject: printing
subject: press
subject: culture
subject: diaspora
subject: children
subject: youth
subject: agriculture
subject: satire
subject: propaganda
description: Digital database of periodical publications of Latvia from the 18th century till today. The database provides open access to plentiful digitized Soviet-era Latvian periodical issues, including those published by Latvian diaspora groups.
creator: National Library of Latvia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1748-2022
format: Digital library
language: Latvian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Baltics

DIGAR Estonian Articles
subject: everyday life
subject: printing
subject: press
subject: propaganda
description: Digital database of newspapers, journals, and serials published in Estonia from 1811 till today. Users can search by date of publication, publication title, article headline, keywords, author, and other parameters.
creator: National Library of Estonia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1811-2022
format: Digital library
language: Estonian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Baltics

Електронна бібліотека НБУ для дітей (Digital Library of the National Library of Ukraine for Children)
subject: children
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: printing
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of rare children's publications that came out between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century at the National Library of Ukraine for Children.
creator: National Library of Ukraine for Children
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1948
format: Digital library
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

Електронної бібліотеки «Культура України» (Digital Library "Culture of Ukraine")
subject: culture
subject: architecture
subject: cinema
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: music
subject: theater
subject: Ukrainian modernism
subject: dance
subject: choreography
subject: circus
subject: printing
subject: history
subject: book
subject: linguistics
subject: press
subject: material culture
subject: ethnography
subject: nationalities
subject: local study
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Wise focusing on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Here users can find publications from different periods on Ukrainian cultural topics.
creator: The National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

Электронная библиотека - Ульяновская областная научная библиотека имени В.И. Ленина (Digital Library of Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library)
subject: local administration
subject: local study
subject: local history
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: economy
subject: propaganda
subject: administrative-territorial division
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientificc Library, containing digital copies of many pre-revolution and Soviet books and periodical issues.
creator: Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ulyanovsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Публичная электронная библиотека - Сахалинская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Public Digital Library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: religion
subject: nationalities
subject: science
subject: education
subject: technology
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: nature
subject: ecology
subject: environment
subject: local history
subject: folk culture
subject: art
subject: exile
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: Korean
subject: agriculture
subject: foreign policy
subject: diplomacy
subject: industry
subject: fishing
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific library that contains digital copies of many Soviet books on the Sakhalin region.
creator: Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Sakhalin
coverage: Russia
coverage: Far East