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A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Tajik films.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Turkmen films.
A Telegram channel that shares digitized Soviet textbooks.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet textbooks cataloged by grades and disciplines.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet films, TV programs, and theater productions.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may…
A digital exhibit with documents about the development of Soviet space technologies. It contains pamphlets, photographs, and official documents.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents audio recordings of Soviet radio programs, including various radio plays, readings of Russian and Soviet literature works, programs for children, etc.
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents video recordings of Soviet TV programs, including films and TV series, news, music, documentaries, programs on sports and culture, etc.
Audio recording of memoirs on the secret celebration of Easter in Soviet Solovki prison camp.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
The official YouTube Channel of the film studio "Soiuzmul'tfil'm", where you can find hundreds of Soviet cartoons.
Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
A 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War commemorative exhibit about the building of the coalition between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt during the Second World War. It contains photographs, official documents, correspondence, etc. about the formation of this alliance.
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.
The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books, many of which are Soviet publications of various types.
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
A statistical collection about the Great Patriotic War published by the Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia.
A VK (V Kontakte) group created by the students of the history department of Moscow State University. The group shares materials, both primary sources and secondary literature, for studying various subjects, including Soviet history.
Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors,…
Document collection dedicated to Soviet artwork during the Great Patriotic War, published by the State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast.
Online exibition of audio recordings of performances from major Russian theaters in the 1940s and 1950s.
Documents and photographs on the development of the theater industry in Karelia from pre-revolution times through the early 2000s.
Digital editions of several Petersburg theatrical journals from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
Thematic collections of the digital library of the National Library of Yakutia, containing a great number of Soviet publications on local culture, ethnic groups, political institution, socio-economic development, etc.
Several thematic online exhibitions of archival documents on the establishment of Belarus statehood, the Great Patriotic War, prominent Belarus individuals, as well as pre-revolution historical events.
A section on the local study of Kamchatka on the website of the Kamchatka Krasheninnikov Regional Scientific Library. It provides links to downloadable PDF versions of publications on the ethnic minorities of Kamchatka. Many of these publications are Soviet ethnographic studies.
Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Digital library of Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library, providing access to extensive digital copies of Soviet-era local publications.
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
Digitized collection of archival documents about Belarusian villages burned during the Great Patriotic War.
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
Transcript of three interviews with Emil' Ershov, a prominent Soviet economist. The interviews touch upon a series of topics related to the Soviet economy, science, and the relationship between the two.
Collaborative project led by the State Archive of Administrative Organs of the Sverdlovsk Oblast dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia and Ural. The project is well-designed and presents extensive archival documents and other historical materials.
The project is dedicated to the Chuvash constructors of the Sursk and Kazan defence lines during the Great Patriotic War. It presents a considerable number of archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic.
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…
A comprehensive database on the Great Patriotic War in Ulyanovsk Oblast, including online exhibitions of archival documents, databases on biographies of war participants, war-time video and radio clips, and downloadable document collections on the subject.
Online exhibit of the Russian state archive in Samara. It presents documents and photographs relating to several large Soviet technological, scientific, and construction projects.