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An electronic library of books, brochures, and periodicals from the Tambov oblast on local history and social, economic, and political life.
Collection of digitized books, brochures, and periodicals on Russian and Soviet history from the Karelian Republic.
Official English-language information bulletin published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
English-language journal about the Soviet Union, published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
English-language journal about the Soviet Union, published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
Official English-language information bulletin published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
The largest digital cultural heritage portal in Lithuania which has been in operation for more than 15 years. Currently, it contains over 280,000 items of cultural heritage. Its content is created and new additions to the portal are made by 24 institutions including libraries, museums, and archives.
Kogu Me Lugu (translates into Collect Our Story, We're Collecting The Story, also Our Entire Story) is an online oral history portal that collects, preserves and shares the family stories of Estonians from around the world in video format. The project focuses on the memories of people who were…
A site with demographic and ethnographic records and maps of both North and South Caucasus.
A site of digitized rare primary source books on Jewish, including Russian Jewish, history.
A site with a huge number of diaries and memoirs from the Soviet period from a variety of people, including masses of ordinary citizens, on daily economic, social, cultural, and political life.
A site with a variety of documents and objects relating to Europe and its history and culture. The Russian collections contain a sporadic group of materials on Soviet daily life and culture.
A website that collects personal accounts, old photographs, and other types of materials on the city of Tashkent. A lot of posts on the website are dedicated to the city's history.
Several transcribed documents about the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of the Provision Government.
Digitized books and periodicals from the collections of the Far East State Scientific Library, among which there are numerous Soviet publications on the Far East.
Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
Digital archive of more than 6700 digital copies of FBI documents. One can find records of the Operation SOLO and investigations of Soviet spies in this archive.
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977. The records of the…
A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Vladimir Lenin from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Nikita Khrushchev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Leonid Brezhnev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Yuri Andropov from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
A site created by the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides open access to a large number of Soviet archival documents from state and party organs, socio-political organizations, and personal fonds. It also contains two document collections decicated to the Great Patriotic War and the…
An exhibit with 100 rare and famous documents on Russian statehood, which includes three categories on the Soviet period.
A Russian federal project that presents thousands of degrees and orders of the State Defence Committee of the USSR with accompanying materials as well as other types of archival materials on the Second World War. Apart from the major exhibits of the project, on the page there are two links to other…
Digitized documents from the personal fond of Stalin from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
A collection of audio clips with the voices of Russian and Soviet literary and cultural figures from the late 19th and 20th centuries exhibited by the Russian State Archive of Phono Documents.
Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
A digital exhibit with documents about the development of Soviet space technologies. It contains pamphlets, photographs, and official documents.
A digital exhibit about the life and work of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, which includes photographs, excerpts from memoirs about him, physical objects, posters and postcards, and official documents.
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 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War documentary exhibit, containing photographs and official documents about the war.
A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
An exhibit devoted to Soviet rocket scientist Boris Chertok and his work on the development of the Soviet space program. It contains mostly documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation.
A digital project with photographs and documents about Crimea and its role as part of the Russian Empire/ USSR.
The electronic library of the Federal Archival Agency's Portal of the Archives of Russia. It contains several document collections, notably one consisting of documents from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
A project containing documents, photographs, posters, etc. about the crimes of the Nazis against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The collection captures the experiences of a wide variety of individuals who suffered under the Nazi regime, including children, the…
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.
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the politics of appeasement.
A digital project on the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, containing photographs and audio and video recordings.
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.
Online library of the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides downloadable PDFs of several document collections.
Online listing of unique archival documents from federal and regional archives of Russia. Each item on the list is a small collection of documents on a certain topic. Currently, the website contains more than 300 items consisting of thousands of pages of digitized archival documents.
A statistical collection about the Great Patriotic War published by the Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia.
Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
The official YouTube Channel of the Azerbaijanfilm Film Studio, where you can find Soviet movies of various genres produced in Azerbaijan.
The official YouTube Channel of the Kazakhfilm Film Studio, where you can find hundreds of Soviet movies of various genres produced in Kazakhstan.
A collection of publications, including books and periodicals, in the Finnish language from the imperial Russian through the early Soviet times.
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.