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Digital exhibits from the Bourganov House.
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users…
Virtual exhibition of Soviet posters produced during the Second World War.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
A digital exhibit about the life and work of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, which includes photographs, excerpts from memoirs about him, physical objects, posters and postcards, and official documents.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast. Currently, it provides open access to more than four thousand digital copies of archival documents from four fonds of the archive.
Digital archive of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv. It contains information about the archive's fonds and digital finding aids for archival documents. It also has digital birth records of the city from 1919-1936 and digitized civil status registration documents of Kyiv from 1925-1935. Besides,…
Digital archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast, consisting of a digital reading room for reading finding aids and digitalized documents, and an online exhibition section.
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.
Digital archive collectively developed by a series of Ukrainian cultural and academic institutions dedicated to Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital archive contains a library section, where you can download digitized copies of works of M. Hrushevsky and studies on him. In the archival section, you can…
An information portal that contains extensive data on the WWⅡ experience of the Perm region.
Annual publication of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1970. Digital copies of table of contents from 1980 are freely downloadable on this web page.
Digital library of the Historical Library of Ukraine, containing digital copies of old publications on Ukrainian culture and history.
Ukrainica is a national reference information and documentary resource of archival, handwritten, and printed sources created in Ukraine or other countries about Ukraine, its history, economy, culture, and people. The digital library now provides open access to tons of digitized books and other types…
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.
Digital library of Ukrainian literature maintained by Maxim Tarnawsky, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The library provides free access to digital copies of Ukrainian literary works published in different periods.
Digital archive of the State Archive of the Vinnytsia Oblast that contains descriptions of the fonds and digital copies of extensive documents from local party and state organs. Notably, the digital archive contains a lot of documents from the local security service.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast. It contains descriptions of the fonds of the archive, and extensive digital copies of documents related to local administration, the Jewish community, and other topics. Notably, it provides open access to a great number of documents from the…
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.
A huge database of victims of Soviet political repressions developed by the International Memorial.
Site commemorating the life and work of Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov. It contains digital copies of some of his works, drafts, and correspondence.
Collection of archival documents related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
Digital archive of the journal "Soviet Music" from 1933 till 1991.
A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
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.
Collection of imperial Russian and Soviet magazines for children.
Transcripts of the meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin
Digital archive of major Soviet journals.
A digital project digitizing and presenting hundreds of original archival documents and statistical data related to migration and colonization in the Tomsk region from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
Digital archive of the Soviet newspaper "Za nauku v Sibiri"
Document collection dedicated to Gulag prisoners who built Soviet energy facilities.
Online database of laws and other types of legal documents adopted in Ukraine from 1983 till 1991.
Online database of laws of the USSR from 1917 till 1991.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares various Soviet and contemporary Russian popular science publications, textbooks, and other types of books.
Online exhibition dedicated to the WWⅡ experience of Samara.
Collection of primary source materials related to the history of Zaprozhzhia. Soviet-era documents include local periodicals, construction plans, photographs, and archival documents from city administrations.
Downloadable document collections published by the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. Most of these collections are dedicated to Ukrainian People's Republic. Other topics include Holodomor and Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Ukraine.
From 1939 to 1953, nearly a million people from the European territories annexed by the USSR were deported to the Gulag. This digital project is a compilation of testimony from former deportees, photographs taken during their lives, private and public archival material, and films, collected by an…
Online document exhibition dedicated to the New Year celebration in the USSR.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet and contemporary cartoons produced by Soiuzmul'tfil'm and Pilot studios.
A site devoted to the life and work of Russian philosopher Ivan Il'in, who worked in Russia before 1922 and spent much of the Soviet period in exile. It contains official documents relating to his work, personal correspondence, and some of his works.
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…
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.
Digital copies of issues of Izvestiia of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR