Е-Архів - Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів (E-archive of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv)
general
local history
political institution
World War Ⅱ
OUN-UPA
foreign relations
religion
Digital archive containing thousands of digitized files from four fonds of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv, mainly covering topics on local education and church activities.
Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv
Link to the Resource
Digital archive
Ukrainian
Polish
Russian
Hungarian
Ukraine
Lviv
Электронные ресурсы центрального архива Министерства обороны РФ (Digital Resources of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia)
Great Patriotic War
Tehran Conference
memory
military
personal narrative
Online exhibitions, databases, and listings of documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. The resources are mostly dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia
Online exhibition
Online database
USSR
Russia
Moldova
Belarus
Электронная библиотека государственного архива социально-политической истории Тюменской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Socio-Political History of Tyumen Oblast)
Red Army
Russian Civil War
Russian Revolution
administrative-territorial division
A digital collection consisting of early Soviet periodicals in Tyumen and a book on the history of administrative-territorial delimitation in Tyumen oblast.
State Archive of Socio-Political History of Tyumen Oblast
Digital document collection
Digital library
Tyumen Oblast
Электронная библиотека государственного архива Тюменской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Tyumen Oblast)
literature
art
culture
geography
science
history
local administration
literature & arts
A collection of digital copies of old books and document collections prepared by the State Archive of Tyumen Oblast.
State Archive of Tyumen Oblast
Электронный каталог государственных архивов Новгородской области (Electronic Catalog of State Archives of Novgorod Oblast)
Digital archival information system for the State Archive of Novgorod Oblast and State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast, where users can search for documents and fonds information, and view digital copies of original documents without registration.
State Archive of Novgorod Oblast
State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Публикация Московского областного архивного центра (Publications of Moscow Oblast Archival Center)
famine
children
everyday life
astronautics
women
leisure
theater
literacy
education
festival
Online exhibitions and digital document collections published by the Moscow Oblast Archival Center.
Moscow Oblast Archival Center
Moscow Oblast
Архивы Ленинградской области (Archive of Leningrad Oblast)
urban history
trade
commerce
economy
collectivization
family
political repression
Kronstadt Rebellion
New Economic Policy
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.
Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
Digital project
Leningrad Oblast
Электронные выставки архивов Ленинградской области (Digital Exhibitions of the Archives of Leningrad Oblast)
Numerous well-organized online exhibits of archival documents from Leningrad oblast, covering various topics in the region's history.
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
industry
press
pioneer organization
law
legal source
Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast
Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Soviet Posters
health
agriculture
labor
Over 150 propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union (1920s-1930s). These posters have been digitized and the images placed in a database with information about each poster. The text included in some of the posters has been translated into English.
Swarthmore College
Digital collection
English
bureaucratism
satire
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.
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Федеральная электронная медицинская библиотека (Federal Digital Medical Library of Russia)
medicine
scholarship
A Russian federal digital library that contains tens of thousands of documents related to medicine and health. One can find extensive Soviet scholarly literature on medical science in the library.
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Национальная электронная библиотека Кыргызстана (National Digital Library of Kyrgyzstan)
archaeology
national culture
A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
Republican Library for Children and Youth named after K. Baialinov
?-post-1991
Kyrgyz
Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia
Archive of film and photo documents (RU) YouTube Channel
architecture
public health
pandemic
sport
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, currently containing more than 160 historical movie clips.
Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
YouTube channel
Social media
Государственный реестр уникальных документов архивного фонда РФ (State Listing of Unique Documents from the Archival Fond of the Russian Federation)
Constitution
urban planning
technology
infrastructure
film
partisan
foreign policy
Online listing of unique archival documents from federal and regional archives of Russia. Each item on the list is a small collection of documents on a certain topic. Currently, the website contains more than 300 items consisting of thousands of pages of digitized archival documents.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Базы данных онлайн - Российский государственный архив в г. Самаре (Online Databases of the Russian State Archive in Samara)
intellectual
aviation
Great Terror
Several databases on repressed Soviet technical intelligentsia, prominent figures in the Soviet aviation and aerospace industries, and scholars of Samara, based on archival documents from the Russian State Archive in Samara.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Samara
Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan
healthcare
nationalities
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, covering various topics in local history.
State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan
Tatarstan
Электронная библиотека Национальной библиотеки Республики Татарстан (Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan)
language
ecology
The digital library of the national library of Tatarstan (different from the National Digital Library of Tatarstan), containing digitized published materials on the history Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan, and on the region's economic, political, cultural and scientific development.
National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan
Tatar
National Archives of Armenia YouTube Channel
diaspora
repatriation
Martiros Sarian
The official YouTube channel of the National Archives of Armenia, where you can find numerous Soviet Armenian films, cartoons, and video clips from the Soviet era.
Armenian
Armenia
South Caucasus
propaganda
design
A Twitter account that shares 20th-century photography, architecture & design of Central and Eastern Europe.
Other social media
Eastern Europe
Eastern European Cartoon General Twitter Account
cartoon
A Twitter account that shares clips of Soviet and Eastern European animation.
A Twitter account that shares Soviet photographs, architecture & design, and USSR propaganda art.
Психоделия по-советски (Soviet Psychedelia) Telegram Channel
psychedelia
underground art
A Telegram channel that shares Soviet psychedelic artwork, including paintings, cartoons, caricatures, posters, etc.
Telegram channel
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books) Telegram Channel
book
printing
music
politics
folklore
police
The Telegram channel of a digital project of the same name that shares digitized imperial Russian and Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) Telegram Channel
school
youth
A Telegram channel that shares digitized Soviet textbooks.
KGB
secret police
security service
intelligence
Soviet-Romanian relations
Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
Igor Casu
Romanian
Romania
История пропаганды (History of Propaganda)
World War Ⅰ
A website dedicated to the history of propaganda around the world in all historical periods. The website contains a section on Soviet propaganda, where many primary source materials are presented.
Oleg Tarasov
other
global
Far East
Southeast Asia
Europe
Africa
travel
cartography
celebrity
A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
LiveJournal blog
Игорь Петров (Igor Petrov) LiveJournal Page
Soviet-German relations
army
P.O.W.
The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often related to the Second World War.
Igor Petrov
Germany
political leader
LiveJournal page of a website "Istoriia gosudarstva", dedicated to the study of Russian and Soviet history. The LiveJournal blog often shares primary source materials on various topics.
Istoriia gosudarstva
Книги и журналы по военной истории (Books and journals on military history) VK Group
historiography
war
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials on military history. The group has a collection of Soviet military literature from the 1960s till the 1990s.
VK group
Становление Человека (Becoming a Human) VK Group
communism
cinema
A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
ЗНАНИЕ — СИЛА / Советские книги для всех (Knowledge - Power / Soviet books for all) VK Group
popular science
psychology
pedagogy
biology
chemistry
physics
astronomy
economics
philology
ideology
Leninism
Marxism
natural science
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
media
documentary
nature
transportation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
Цифровая история (Digital history) VK Group
Stalinism
Cold War
Stalin
Khrushchev
The VK page of a digital scholarly-educational project of the same name, dedicated to Russian and Soviet history, as well as world history. On the VK wall the project team shares various kinds of primary source materials on Soviet history.
Советский альманах (Soviet almanac) VK Group
radio
television
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
Буряадай уран зохёолой юртэмсэ/Литературный мир Бурятии (Literary world of Buryatia) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Buryat national literature, art, and culture in general. The group shares digitized works of Buryat writers and artists, and their biographic information.
Mongolian
Buryat
Buryatia
Советская Бурятия (Soviet Buryatia) VK Group
ethnography
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
Хранилище. Историческая литература. Книги. (Repository. Historical literature. Books) VK Group
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both secondary literature and primary source materials on a variety of historical questions. You can find thousands of digitized Soviet books and document collections in this group.
«Еврейские герои» (Jewish heroes) Telegram Channel
Jewish
anti-Semitism
dissident
"Jewish Heroes" is a project that shares information about Jewish people who struggled against the Soviet regime. The project's Telegram channel shares original archival materials about these Jewish people.
A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
Facebook page
Из газетного архива (и других архивов) (From the newspaper archive and other archives) Facebook Group
A Facebook group where members share clippings from Soviet newspapers and other types of publications. Sometimes group members also share archival documents on various topics.
Gulag
Facebook page of Sergey Prudovskiy, a Russian historian and a former staff member of International Memorial. He is the administrator of a Facebook group "Remembering the GULAG" and often posts images of Soviet archival documents on Soviet political repressions.
culinary art
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized books and other types of materials on a variety of topics, ranging from history and culture to housework and fitness. Among the shared materials many were published during the Soviet era.
Клуб левых историков и обществоведов (Club of Left Historians and Social Scientists) VK Group
Lenin
Communism
Party organization
A VK (V Kontakte) group that often shares primary source materials (mostly archival documents) on Lenin and Leninism, as well as secondary literature on Soviet political history.
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
Digital project that provides open access to about 1000 digitized Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
avant-garde
Mayakovsky
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).
socialist realism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
Гостелерадиофонд (Gosteleradiofond) VK Group
late socialism
The official VK page of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs, where you can find numerous video and audio materials of the Soviet era.
Gosteleradiofond
СОВЕТСКИЙ ЭКРАН (Soviet Screen) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
Larisa Kravchenko