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Online exhibition of audio recordings about the city of Moscow, its streets and people, from Imperial Russia through the Soviet times.
Digital exhibits from the Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery .
Digital exhibits from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
Children's films produced by Mosfilm available on YouTube.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet textbooks, children's books, and other types of Soviet educational materials.
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
A YouTube channel presenting Soviet and contemporary Russian cartoons and children's films.
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares cartoons produced in communist Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other Eastern European countries. Videos shared here are mostly dubbed in Russian.
Photographs of Birobidzhan in the 1930s.
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.
Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the major wars Russia/the USSR took part in in the 20th century.
Archive of personal correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Documents and photographs related to Jaakko Rugojev, a Soviet Karelian writer.
Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous Soviet academic, popular science, as well as propagandistic books (not always scientific, as the group's name alleges, but atheistic).
A set of digital tools provided by the United State Archive of Orenburg Oblast, including online guides to the archive's collections and finding aids, and a few online databases. The databases include a database on individuals evacuated to the Chkalov Oblast during the Great Patriotic War, a…
Digital project dedicated to Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. On the website, you can download the digital copies of his major works and browse photos, videos, and documents about the scholar.
Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
Digital library of the National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea, containing hundreds of digital copies of Soviet-era publications on local culture, history, folklore, and development.
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period.
National digital library of Tatarstan, containing more than 11,000 digital copies of various publications, including a great number of Soviet-era books and periodicals.
Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
Digital library of the National Library of the Chechen Republic, containing books and periodicals published locally during the Soviet times.
Digital library of the Russian State Library for Children, containing extensive digitized pre- and post-1917 Russian and Soviet printed materials publications for/about children.
Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
A civil digital project initiated by the descendants of the victims of Soviet political repressions in Orsha, Belarus. The project has collected documents related to the victims and conducted oral history interviews with the descendants or relatives of the victims. You can find the transcriptions of…
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.
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.
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.
Online document collection on the role of Komi-Permyak Okrug in the Great Patriotic War.
Online catalog and player of Soviet and Russian films produced by Mosfilm.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.