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Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Virtual exhibitions of the Museum-Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad", featuring various war-related materials.
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
Photographs of Birobidzhan in the 1930s.
This encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. It provides access to various historical materials related to Soviet Jews.
Digital project on the literary life of Tomsk Oblast. It provides information about Tomsk writers and relevant bibliophiles.
The collection includes works by employees of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the history of the region and various scientific areas of Finno-Ugric studies (linguistics, literary criticism, folklore, history, art…
"The Paper Currency & Banknotes database features detailed descriptions and images of over 600 numismatic pieces found in the André Savine Collection. Pieces in the numismatics sub-collection consist primarily of paper currency and other forms of scrip such as banknotes, loan obligations, and…
Online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history, consisting of audio recordings of Soviet and world leaders' speeches, radio broadcasts, and other audio materials.
Open-access archival documents on Stalinist Great Terror.
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.
Online exhibits of documents from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History as well as several other archives, covering topics such as the Great Patriotic War, Moscow Olympics, and two Soviet leaders - Brezhnev and Andropov.
Online library of the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides downloadable PDFs of several document collections.
Topics include the urban history of Petropavlovsk-kamchatsky, local cultural development, everyday life, etc.
Topics include local cultural development, infrastructure building, the Great Patriotic War, etc.
Several freely accessible online document collections, covering topics such as Fascist crimes in the region and the urban history of the city of Krasnodar.
Databases include the online catalog of the fonds of the archive, databases of individuals evacuated from other regions of the USSR to Komi-Permyak Okrug during the WWⅡ, and databases on monuments, historical buildings and places of the region.
Online document collection on the role of Komi-Permyak Okrug in the Great Patriotic War.
A bunch of interesting online exhibitions and projects on Komi-Permyak's history, people, and culture. Topics including the Great Patriotic War, the Great Terror, urban development, local cultural figures, local education, festivals, etc.
Online exhibitions of archival documents on various topics. The "Nakhodki arkhivistov" section is constantly being updated and has a lot of interesting documents on various themes, such as the Great Terror, local cultural celebrities, local education, etc.
Topics include the Second World War in the Far East, the history of local gold mining, folk culture, Sino-Soviet-Japanese relations in the Far East, etc.
A small number of well-organized online exhibitions of archival documents and other historical materials related to Belgorod Oblast.
Topics include the history of local coal mining, industrialization, urban development, etc.
Topics include evacuations during the Great Patriotic War, local scientific and cultural development, etc.
Online exhibitions, downloadable PDF document collections, and digital projects of the State Archive of Murmansk Oblast. There are many interesting materials under the "Выставки" and "Сборники архивных документов, справочники" sections. Notebly, "МУРМАНСКИЙ НЭП" is a digital project dedicated to the…
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 of the State Archive of Oryol Oblast, including several online exhibitions of archival documents and freely downloadable document collections on the subject.
A database of WWⅡ POWs in the concentration camps of Oryol Oblast based on archival documents.
An ongoing digital project of the State Historical Archive of Sakhalin Oblast that digitizes and presents Soviet films and video recordings about Sakhalin. By February 2022, more than 300 films and video clips had been digitized under the project, and they will be gradually published online in the…
Several well-designed online databases based on archival documents from Sverdlovsk Oblast, including databases on WWⅡ participants, and a database on the victims of political repressions from the 1920s through the 1930s.
A project of the State Archive of Tver Oblast that collects personal narratives from archival materials on the Great Patriotic War.
Well-designed databases of the United State Archive of Chelyabinsk Oblast, currently including five databases on WWⅡ evacuation, victims of political repressions, dekulakization, Labor Red Army soldiers, and honored citizens of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
Publications of the State Archive of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, among which several are downloadable document collections on the Great Patriotic War, the national congress in the region in the 1934, and expeditions to the region in the 1930s.
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.
A digital repository of Georgian posters of the 20th century.
Digital collections of scientific publications from the second half of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th century from the Republican Scientific-Technical Library of Belarus. The collection is still being worked on, so only a few publications listed there are downloadable.
Several digital exhibitions of archival documents from archives in Kyrgyzstan.
Online exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation. Most of the exhibitions are dedicated to prominent Soviet Belarusian scientists and architects.
Publications of the State Archive of Odessa Oblast, among which many are downloadable document collections dedicated to important historical events in the region, such as Holodomor and the Second World War.
