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Full catalog of publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
Selected Soviet-era publications dedicated to Aleksandra Pakhmutova, a Soviet and Russian composer.
Downloadable document collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The collection contains 20 publications covering several major topics in Soviet history, including the Great Terror, World War Ⅱ, the Russian Orthodox Church under Soviet power, etc.
Online publications, including document collections, digital projects, and thematic collections, of the Russian State Archive.
Online exhibitions and digital document collections published by the Moscow Oblast Archival Center.
Digital library developed by a group of Russian specialists. Here you can find tons of Soviet and contemporary books, journals, newspapers of all kinds, especially academic publications.
Digital library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific library that contains digital copies of many Soviet books on the Sakhalin region.
Digital texts of Andrei Sakharov's publications, public speeches, interview transcriptions, and memoirs.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, consisting of a collection of old photos and a collection of the digital copies of the newspaper "Soviet Bukovyna" from 1940 to 1944.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares rare video and audio recordings of Soviet rock music.
Document collections and other publications of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, based on the agency's declassified archival documents. Currently, this page provides free access to one document collection dedicated to Europe and the USSR during 1935-1945.
Mediazona's oral history interview with Uyghur emigrants from China to the USSR.
Thematic document collection on the Revolution and Civil War in the Altai region.
A digital exhibit of archival documents related to Russian and Soviet diplomacy during the events of 1917. It includes diplomatic correspondence, photographs, and other types of documents.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.
Online exhibition dedicated to the repressed scientists and scholars of the USSR.
A Dutch-Russian joint project containing Russian historical statistics from the imperial and Soviet periods.
Online document collection on the activities of the Organizing Committee of the VTsIK of Altai Krai, 1937-1939.
A website dedicated to Soviet rock music, where you can search Soviet rock bands, listen to their music, and watch old video recordings.
National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
Digital collection of documents on Russian Marxists, Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and Soviet power. Here you can find transcripts of Politburo meetings between 1925-1927, a time that saw shifting power relations between Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev; a 1922 article on the creation of the Red…
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
Digital collection of manuscripts of Marina Tsvetaeva.
A very well-designed digital library of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Dobroliubov Scientific Library, containing extensive books, periodicals, documents, maps, and other types of historical materials related to the Arkhangelsk region. Its journal and newspaper section provides open access to many issues of…
Digital archive of Sergei Yesenin's personal correspondence.
A site with postcards and photographs from old Samara, including from the early Soviet period.
Document collection that contains documents and photographs related to the establishment and development of the Buryat ASSR, and post-war socialist construction in the republic.
Document collection on the history of Egituyskiy Datsan, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Buryatia, from the Russian imperial till the early Soviet periods.
One of a series of document collections on German atrocities against Soviet civilians during the Second World War.
Three downloadable document collections on Soviet-era deportations to Kazakhstan from 1930 to 1945, published by the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More digital publications may be added to this section in the future.
Online document collections published by the State Archive in Irbit.
Many downloadable document collections published by the State Archive of Eastern-Kazakhstan Oblast on various interesting topics, such as Kazakh migration to China in the 1920s and the collectivization of agriculture in the region.
A number of digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection.
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection
Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
Website dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov, where you can find digitized texts of his works, photographs, drawings, and memoirs on the writer.
Digital archive of the Russian newspaper "Sibirskaia zhizn'" from 1894 to 1919.
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
Document collection on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, published by the State Archival Administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast and the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
Digital archive of the Soviet literary journal "Smena".
A huge digital collection of church manuscripts and old books from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.
A private database of socialist realist music and popular music related to ideology and patriotism. The section "rechi" (bottom left in white) includes some audio recordings of speeches by Soviet leaders.
A YouTube playlist with hundreds of Soviet Georgian films.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet children's books and textbooks, as well as children's journals and film strips.
A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.