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Painting of Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov (1869-1947), a Russian painter and draftsman of the realistic school of painting.
Photographs, manuscripts, paintings, and biographic information of Nikolai Gumilev. Published works, including Gumiliev's memoirs and others' memoirs about him, can also be found under the "biografiia i vospominaniia" tab on the left.
A site containing the letters of Nikolai Gumilev, influential poet and white military officer. It includes a few letters from the Soviet period.
A site with archival exhibitions of the State Archive of Bryansk Oblast, including photographs, official documents, etc.
A site with postcards and photographs from old Samara, including from the early Soviet period.
A documentary exhibit about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is a tribute to the late Russian historian Gen. A. A. Lyakhovsky, and contains a few official documents (like Politburo meeting sessions), correspondence, etc. relating to the war. All documents were translated into English.
Declassified US National Security Agency records on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the politics of appeasement.
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the Munich Agreement that played a large role in the politics of appeasement.
A project containing documents, photographs, posters, etc. about the crimes of the Nazis against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The collection captures the experiences of a wide variety of individuals who suffered under the Nazi regime, including children, the…
The electronic library of the Federal Archival Agency's Portal of the Archives of Russia. It contains several document collections, notably one consisting of documents from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Digital encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism developed by the Marxists Internet Archive, containing English translations of representative anti-Revisionist materials from China, Albania, and many western countries.
A digital project with photographs and documents about Crimea and its role as part of the Russian Empire/ USSR.
An exhibit devoted to Soviet rocket scientist Boris Chertok and his work on the development of the Soviet space program. It contains mostly documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation.
A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
Official digital archive of the journal "Asia and Africa today", containing digital copies of editions of the journal from 1958 till 1974. Some articles can be freely downloaded as PDF from the website, while others are not free.
The 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War documentary exhibit, containing photographs and official documents about the war.
A digital exhibit devoted to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. It includes official documents, photographs, correspondence, and other documents.
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 Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university. Most of the available Soviet-era publications are on natural sciences and technologies.
A digital exhibit with documents about the development of Soviet space technologies. It contains pamphlets, photographs, and official documents.
Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
A collection of audio clips with the voices of Russian and Soviet literary and cultural figures from the late 19th and 20th centuries exhibited by the Russian State Archive of Phono Documents.
A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
A statistical collection about the Great Patriotic War published by the Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia.
A site of digitized rare primary source books on Jewish, including Russian Jewish, history.
A site with demographic and ethnographic records and maps of both North and South Caucasus.
A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
Digitized collection of archival documents about Belarusian villages burned during the Great Patriotic War.
A database of information about Belarusian villages burnt during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
A collection of Russian posters from 1919-1989 from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.
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.
Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
Collection of archival documents related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Digital archive of the Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from the 1960s till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly about pedagogy.
A Princeton University digital library of Soviet children's books from 1918-1938.
Digital library of the Ural State Pedagogical University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from 1938 till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly dedicated to pedagogy.
Digital collection of archival documents and materials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War in Volgograd Oblast.
A published collection of archival documents about Nazi German punitive operations on the Belarus-Latvian border zones in 1943.
Digital repository of the publications of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, containing about 10,000 digital copies of Soviet-era academic and non-academic publications of the university, including the university party buro's official newspaper "Za Kadry".
A collection of the works of the Eurasianist thinkers of the 1920s and 1930s. It includes published articles, correspondence, and other materials.
A public history resource about the Alexander Palace and the fate of Nicholas II and his family. It contains photographs, personal accounts, official documents, etc. on these topics.
Website with works by and about Russian religious thinkers and philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Digital editions of newspaper "Dobrovolets" from 1943 to 1944.
Digital editions of the Russian emigres newspaper Nakanune (published in Berlin) from 1922-1924.
Internet archive with the works of Marxist Zionist Ber Borochov (1881-1917). It contains a number of his works and links to other relevant websites.
Site commemorating the life and work of Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov. It contains digital copies of some of his works, drafts, and correspondence.
Annotated bibliography of a number of digitized sources on the Russian Revolution. It links to a number of sites with documents, charts, posters, and photographs (among other resources) about the revolution.
Site dedicated to the Moscow metro and containing resources about its construction and history. It includes contemporaneous newspaper articles and personal accounts by various people (architects, engineers, builders) associated with the metro.
Commemorative site with interviews of veterans of the Great Patriotic War supported by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. It also includes soldiers' letters and audio recordings of veterans' narratives.