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

#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

The Blavatnik Archive
subject: Jewish
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: nationality
subject: culture
subject: war
subject: military
subject: World War II
subject: propaganda
subject: education
subject: women
subject: holiday
subject: festival
subject: political leader
subject: religion
subject: Judaism
subject: POW
subject: holocaust
subject: architecture
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
description: The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of various types.
creator: Len Blavatnik
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1910-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: Yiddish
language: Ukrainian
language: Polish
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Germany
coverage: France
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Poland
coverage: Austria
coverage: Belarus
coverage: US
coverage: Czech Republic
coverage: Israel
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Europe
coverage: Asia
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: South Caucasus
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: China
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Moldova
coverage: UK
coverage: Romania
coverage: Mongolia

05/03/53
subject: Stalin
subject: political leader
subject: personal cult
subject: personal narrative
description: Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
creator: 50353
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1953
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
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

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

Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ) (The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB))
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: culture
subject: folklore
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
creator: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: folklore
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Russian Archives Online
subject: urban history
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: economy
subject: sport
subject: culture
subject: everyday life
subject: agriculture
subject: music
subject: art
subject: healthcare
subject: infrastructure
subject: women
subject: army
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: ABAmedia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Egypt
coverage: Cuba
coverage: global

國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: trade
subject: diplomacy
subject: law
subject: foreign policy
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: Xinjiang
subject: propaganda
subject: legal source
description: Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read online.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
language: English
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Japan
coverage: Xinjiang

國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: trade
subject: diplomacy
subject: law
subject: foreign policy
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: Xinjiang
subject: migration
subject: espionage
subject: propaganda
subject: White Army
subject: legal source
description: Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
language: English
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Japan
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: USA
coverage: UK

蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: diplomacy
subject: foreign policy
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: personal narrative
description: English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-1937
format: Digital collection
language: English
language: Chinese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: Russia

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

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)

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

Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
subject: industry
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: education
subject: women
subject: press
subject: pioneer organization
subject: religion
subject: law
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
subject: personal narrative
subject: legal source
description: Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
creator: Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Astrakhan Oblast
coverage: Russia

Книжная коллекция редких изданий Аги (Rare Book Collection of Agi)
subject: nationalities
subject: Mongol
subject: Buriat
subject: literature
subject: translation
subject: art
subject: internationalism
subject: orthography
subject: folklore
subject: linguistics
subject: expedition
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Aginskaya Krai Zhamtsarano Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1913-1973
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Mongolian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Zabaykalsky Krai
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Russia

Полнотекстовые базы данных Библиотеки Аль-Фараби (Full-text Databases of the Al-Farabi Library)
subject: science
subject: physics
subject: literature
subject: Abai
subject: poetry
subject: culture
subject: history
subject: geography
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: Full-text databases of the scientific library of the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. Here you can find digital copies of many Soviet Kazakhstani academic publications.
creator: Al-Farabi Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Kazakh
language: Ukrainian
language: English
language: French
language: German
language: Italian
language: Georgian
language: Armenian
language: Azeri
language: Tatar
language: Arabic
language: Greek
language: Spanish
language: Russian
language: Belarusian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Turkestan
coverage: Central Asia

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

Сергей Довлатов (Sergei Dovlatov)
subject: Sergei Dovlatov
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: journalism
subject: intellectual
subject: literature & arts
description: Website dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov, where you can find digitized texts of his works, photographs, drawings, and memoirs on the writer.
creator: Aleksandr Daniliuk
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Журналы 1920-х гг. (Magazines of the 1920s)
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: press
subject: printing
subject: art
subject: propaganda
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Aleksandr Galushin
creator: Konstantin Polivanov
creator: Lev Turchinskii
creator: Andrei Bogachev
creator: Olga Kaziutina
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1930
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Документы РККА (Documents RKKA)
subject: Red Army
subject: military
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: law
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: legal source
description: Site with numerous documents (including directives, soldiers' personal documents, instructions, etc.) for Red Army soldiers, many of them from 1917-1945. The site is run by a group of colleagues led by Mikhailovskaia Artillery Military Academy scholar V. M. Mil'bakh.
creator: Aleksandr Kiian et al.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1946
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

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

Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen (History of the Volga Germans)
subject: German
subject: nationalities
subject: political institution
subject: local administration
subject: Volga German
subject: nationalities policy
description: A site created by Russian enthusiast of Volga German history Alexander Spak containing detailed information on the history of Volga German settlements until 1941, when the mass deportation of Soviet Germans to Siberia and Central Asia began amid the Nazi German invasion of the U.S.S.R., and on the fate of Germans thereafter. The site contains Soviet books about the Volga German ASSR, official documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
creator: Aleksandr Shpak
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1862-1997
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: German
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Volga German ASSR

Исторические материалы (Historical Materials)
subject: political institution
subject: KGB
subject: NKVD
subject: security service
subject: secret police
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: kolkhoz
subject: foreign policy
subject: foreign relations
subject: Beria
subject: Bukharin
subject: political leader
subject: trade
subject: law
subject: justice
subject: Gosplan
subject: economy
subject: Zhdanov
subject: Zinoviev
subject: Kirov
subject: Great Terror
subject: political repression
subject: cartography
subject: dekulakization
subject: Molotov
subject: Trotsky
subject: Politburo
subject: population
subject: demographics
subject: culture
subject: housing
subject: agriculture
subject: foreign trade
subject: rehabilitation
subject: transportation
subject: legal source
description: A private digital project that provides open access to a huge number of primary sources for researching Russian and Soviet history, including published materials, archival documents (transcriptions), statistics, and photographs.
creator: Aleksei Markov
creator: Aleksandr Tsypin
creator: Nikolai Slavnitskii
creator: Olga Osipova
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

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

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

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

Электронная Сибирь: Communities and Collections (Electronic Siberia: Communities and Collections)
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: Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
creator: Altai Krai V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
creator: Kemerov Oblast V. D. Fedorov Scientific Library
creator: Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
creator: Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai

Постигая Алтай. Электронная библиотека Алтая: Коллекции (Understanding Altai: The Electronic Library of Altai: Collections)
subject: agriculture
subject: economy
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: scholarship
subject: academics
subject: World War I
subject: personal narrative
subject: veteran
subject: virgin lands campaign
description: Electronic library of the V. Ia. Shishkov Altai Krai Universal Scientific Library. It contains numerous resources (books, archival documents, maps, etc.) on the local history of Altai Krai, as well as collections of local newspapers.
creator: Altai Region V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai

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

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

Антисоветская Электронная Библиотека: исторические материалы и книги (Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books)
subject: dissident
subject: samizdat
subject: anti-Soviet
subject: everyday life
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
creator: Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Абхазская интернет-библиотека (Abkhaz Internet-Library)
subject: culture
subject: local history
subject: history
subject: ethnography
subject: nationalities
subject: religion
subject: language
subject: linguistics
subject: literature
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: economy
subject: law
subject: science
subject: art
subject: children
subject: local study
subject: personal narrative
subject: natural science
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Abkhaz
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Abkhazia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: South Caucasus

В едином строю - к социализму (In United Order - To Socialism)
subject: migration
subject: Tatar
subject: industrialization
subject: kolkhoz
subject: metallurgy
subject: economy
subject: everyday life
subject: culture
subject: Five-year plan
description: Collaborative project between archives of Tatarstan and Chelyabinsk Oblast, dedicated to the period of industrialization in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the role of Tatar migrants in it.
creator: Archival Administration of Chelyabinsk Oblast
creator: Archives of Tatarstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1929-1945
format: Digital project
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ulyanovsk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ural
coverage: Magnitogorsk

Виртуальные выставки Архивной службы Курской области (Online Exhibitions of the Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast)
subject: economy
subject: culture
subject: law
subject: archive
subject: October Revolution
subject: everyday life
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: urban history
subject: women
subject: education
subject: cinema
subject: art
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
creator: Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kursk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Germany

Электронные выставки архивов Ленинградской области (Digital Exhibitions of the Archives of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: political institution
subject: urban history
subject: history
subject: trade
subject: commerce
subject: economy
subject: women
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: collectivization
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: family
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: Numerous well-organized online exhibits of archival documents from Leningrad oblast, covering various topics in the region's history.
creator: Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

Архивы Ленинградской области (Archive of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: political institution
subject: urban history
subject: history
subject: trade
subject: commerce
subject: economy
subject: women
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: collectivization
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: family
subject: political repression
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

Выставки Архивного агентства Кыргызской Республики (Exhibitions of the Archival Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: literature
subject: intellectual
subject: culture
subject: archive
subject: political leader
subject: Turdakun Ucubaliev
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: Several digital exhibitions of archival documents from archives in Kyrgyzstan.
creator: Archival Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Georgian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Central Asia

75 лет Победы (75 Years of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: evacuation
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: partisan
subject: guerilla warfare
subject: everyday life
subject: children
subject: industrial development
subject: light industry
subject: sport
subject: culture
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: education
subject: trade
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
creator: Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Tikhvin
coverage: Kronshtadt

Блокада Ленинграда. Эвакуация (Leningrad Blockade. Evacuation.)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: evacuation
description: Database on individuals evacuated from Leningrad during the Leningrad Blockade.
creator: Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1943
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: USSR

Мгновения объективной истории России и Венгрии (Moments of Objective History of Russia and Hungary)
subject: everyday life
subject: architecture
subject: Russia
subject: Hungary
subject: diplomacy
description: Online exhibition of photographs taken by 20th-century Russian and Hungarian photographers that present the everyday life and urban landscapes of the two countries and their bilateral relations.
creator: Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-1993
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Hungary

Электронная библиотека Архивной службы Курской области (Digital Library of the Archival Service of Kursk Oblast)
subject: political institution
subject: peasantry
subject: socialist construction
subject: agriculture
subject: economy
subject: Revolution
subject: Party organization
subject: architecture
subject: historiography
subject: railroad
description: Digital library of the Archival Administration of Kursk Oblast that provides access to PDF versions of a bunch of Soviet publications on the Kursk region, as well as some imperial Russian publications.
creator: Archival Service of Kursk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1792-1951
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kursk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Архивная служба Воронежской области (Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast)
subject: Voronezh Oblast
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: German occupation
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: White Army
subject: Ivan Vrachev
subject: Voronezh
subject: military
subject: state
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: writing
subject: literature
subject: poetry
subject: theater
subject: Administration of Culture
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: engineering
subject: Russian Artists' Union
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: doctor
subject: agriculture
subject: economics
subject: scholarship
subject: academics
subject: agronomy
subject: plays
subject: space program
subject: astronautics
subject: geography
subject: local study
subject: education
subject: puppet theater
subject: youth
subject: periodicals
subject: komsomol
subject: children
subject: hospital
subject: social services
subject: N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University
subject: archive
subject: civil society
subject: Russian Children's Fond
subject: Soviet World Fond
subject: Russian World Fond
subject: students
subject: construction
subject: construction brigade
subject: railroad
subject: South-Western Railroad
subject: hero of socialist labor
subject: Baikalo-Amur Railroad
subject: women
subject: Kseniia Zorikina
subject: memory
subject: Danila Kutsygin
subject: reconstruction
subject: home front
subject: propaganda
subject: concentration camp
subject: prisoners
subject: urban history
subject: defence
subject: pioneer organization
subject: transportation
subject: virgin lands campaign
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source

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

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

Архив Сахарова (Archive of Sakharov)
subject: Andrei Sakharov
subject: dissent
subject: human rights
subject: science
subject: nuclear technology
subject: intellectual
subject: Elena Bonner
subject: personal narrative
description: The official archive of Sakharov, containing scientific works, journalism, epistolary heritage, documents of social and political activity, memoirs, personal and property documents, as well as materials for evaluating the social activities of A. Sakharov and E. Bonner (discussion materials and criticism; reviews and reviews; materials in protection and support; academic degrees, honorary titles, awards, prizes), materials for Sakharov's genealogy. Records that are not directly available on the website can be requested online.
creator: Archive of Sakharov
source: Archive of Sakharov
date: 1940-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Выставки Архива города Севастополя (Exhibitions of the Archive of the City of Sevastopol)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: astronautics
subject: leisure
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: intellectual
subject: architecture
subject: urban history
subject: religion
subject: nationalities
subject: Yuri Gagarin
subject: space program
subject: literature & arts
creator: Archive of the City of Sevastopol
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Sevastopol
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Black Sea

Комплекс архивных документов Архива города Севастополя (Complex of Archival Documents of the Archive of the City of Sevastopol)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: printing
subject: propaganda
subject: personal narrative
description: Four digital collections of historical materials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, including one archival document collection, one section on war participants from Sevastopol, one photo collection, and one collection of periodicals published during wartime. There are quite a few interesting documents.
creator: Archive of the City of Sevastopol
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Sevastopol
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Black Sea