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Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Western-Kazakhstan Oblast. It consists of several sections, including a section on the archive's digital publications, a section on digitized historical periodicals, a section on digital exhibitions of archival documents, and a digital reading room for reading…
Digital archive of the Iofe Fond, containing archival documents, memoirs, biographic data, and other types of materials related to Soviet political repression and civil activism.
Digital archive of periodicals of Uzbekistan from the Soviet times till today. Though most digital copies in this archive are contemporary issues, users still can find quite a few digitized Soviet publications, such as Pravda Vostoka, Zvezda Vostoka, Vechernii Tashkent, etc.
Electronic archive of Novosibirsk Oblast archive. It contains photographs of aspects of economic and social life in Novosibirsk and a number of maps of the region, as well as a few other documents on the Soviet period.
Digital archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
Digital archive of works of Solomon Telingater, a famous Soviet graphic artist.
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.
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".
Digital archive of the Ural State Forest Engineering University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from 1922 till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly about forestry and forest engineering.
Electronic archive of Udmurtiia on the site of the Archives of Udmurtiia. It contains documents from Udmurt history in the Soviet period, focusing on documents about municipal and local governance.
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.
Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
Digital archival information system for the State Archive of Novgorod Oblast and State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast, where users can search for documents and fonds information, and view digital copies of original documents without registration.
Collection of digital open-access published materials from between 1917 and 1991 in the Russian State Library. In the link, the filter "otkrytii dostup" is already selected; if it is not, one should select it in order to view publicly available books.
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…
Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc. The archive also has digital copies of Soviet-era local newspapers and journals, such as "Stalinets" and "Za industrial'nye kadry".
A few digital copies of books and newspaper issues of Soviet Kazakhstan as well as imperial Turkestan.
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
Digital photo archive of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
This digital reading room provides access to digital finding aids for documents in the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia. However, you can only access the documents per se in person at the archive.
Online downloadable publications of the State Archive of Contemporary History of Ulyanovsk Oblast, among which several are document collections on different topics of Russian and Soviet history.
A very helpful digital portal that includes various digital projects, databases, and online exhibitions based on archival materials from the Perm region. Both thematic and chronological coverages of the projects in the digital reading room are quite extensive.
A site with demographic and ethnographic records and maps of both North and South Caucasus.
Digital collection of published materials on the ethnography and folklore of the Russian North, including the territories of Vologda Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Republic of Komi.
Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the Komsomol organizations in Belgorod Oblast throughout the Soviet period.
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.
Two-volume document collection on the labor of postwar Japanese POWs in Primorsky Krai.
A web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
Online database dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. It has collected Soviet and contemporary press coverage on the Academy and prominent Armenian academics.
Online database that presents periodical materials on the Karabakh conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan from 1988 till 2016.
Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
A huge digital library dedicated to Turkic-related topics. The website has four versions in Arabic, Turkish, English, and Uyghur, and each version presents books and periodicals in its respective language. One can find plentiful interesting publications on Muslims and Islam in Central Asia and the…
Digital archive of the Second Historical Archives of China, currently containing digital copies of the documents of the Beiyang government and the digital catalog of documents from the Ministry of Education of the Guomindang government. A few documents are related to Soviet Russia and are available…
Open-access full-text database of Chinese-language Marxist works, developed by the Marxists Internet Archive. It contains the Chinese translations of Lenin's works and many other Soviet publications. It also has many documents related to Sino-Soviet relations, such as a 21-volume document collection…
Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
Selected Chinese and Soviet press content and archival documents that reflect the Sino-Soviet ideological debate in the 1950s and 1960s. All materials presented on the website are in Chinese.
Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read…
Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the…
Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
Digital Japanese newspaper clippings collection developed by the Kobe University Library, providing open-access to articles from various Japanese newspapers published in the 20th century. Many articles are related to Japanese-Soviet-Chinese relations.
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
Digitized document collection on the Korean War, originally compiled by Shen Zhihua, a Chinese historian, and published in Taiwan. The collection contains more than 1400 pages of Chinese translations of Russian archival documents on the subject.
The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. Many newspaper articles are related to the Soviet Union. Notably,…