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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.
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
Digital archive of documents related to Andrei Ershov, a prominent Soviet academic of information science.
Digital archive of the newspaper "Sovetskaia kul'tura".
Digital editions of the Russian emigres newspaper Nakanune (published in Berlin) from 1922-1924.
The official digital archive of the journal "Nauka i zhizn'", which provides free access to a limited number of digitized Soviet-era issues.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
Digital archive of the Soviet journal "Iunost'".
Digital collection and institutional research repository that captures, preserves, and disseminates the intellectual property created within the Saint Petersburg State University community. It provides free access to the digital copies of more than six thousand Soviet-era publications, including…
A collection of TV and radio programs in Russia, the former Soviet Union, as well as other world countries from 1950 till today. Data on Russia are the most comprehensive, while data on other countries are inconsistent.
Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
The official archive of Sakharov, containing scientific works, journalism, epistolary heritage, documents of social and political activity, memoirs, personal and property documents, as well as materials for evaluating the social activities of A. Sakharov and E. Bonner (discussion materials and…
Digital archive of documents and materials on Karelian culture.
Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
Archival information portal for archives in Leningrad Oblast. You can find useful sources under "Projects" (on homepage), "Thematic Databases" (under the "LOGAV" tab), and "Electronic Exhibitions" sections.
Digital collection of Soviet-era normative and legal documents on archival affairs in Ukraine. It contains 195 full-text copies of documents from various archives in Ukraine.
Digital project that provides open access to digitized academic serials of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences published during 1919-1931.
The digital archive and library of the Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London), an information bureau established in London during the 1970s as the successor of the Ukrainian Publishers. It contains archival fonds related to the OUN and collections of books, periodicals, and other types of…
Several old video clips from the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History.
A great number of declassified archival documents on Soviet policy towards Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
Digitized documents from the archive of Yegor Gaidar, including plentiful interesting documents on the Soviet economy, foreign relations, and other questions, especially on the late Soviet period.
Database of copyright certificates and patents for inventions issued in the USSR.
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.
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.
Several databases on repressed Soviet technical intelligentsia, prominent figures in the Soviet aviation and aerospace industries, and scholars of Samara, based on archival documents from the Russian State Archive in Samara.
Databases of the Central State Archive of Kirov Oblast, including the digital finding aids of the archive, a database on individuals evacuated to Kirov Oblast during the WWⅡ, a database on WWⅡ soldiers who passed away in hospitals of Kirov Oblast, as well as other databases on the imperial period.
Online database of biographies of nomenclatural cadres of Party, Komsomol, administrative, financial, and professional organs of Soviet Kazakhstan from 1919-1991 based on archival documents from the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan.
Database of biographical information of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the 17th century till today.
A Russian federal project aimed at "retain the historical memory about the tragedy of the peaceful population of the USSR - victims of the war crimes of nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War." Under the framework of the project, archives across Russia have published a series of…
A database of information about Belarusian villages burnt during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
Memorial site devoted to the victims of Soviet political repression. It is primarily devoted to collecting information about victims, but also includes numerous archival documents and photographs of use to historians.
An online bibliography of works of Dmitry Likhachev, with links to downloadable PDF copies.
Digital library that contains more than two thousands digital copies of Soviet-era publications, most of which are literary works and humanities studies.
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
A site of digitized rare primary source books on Jewish, including Russian Jewish, history.
A private digital library that contains digital transcriptions of many contemporary and Soviet books and articles on politics, history, law, and cybernetics.
A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.
A collection of the works of the Eurasianist thinkers of the 1920s and 1930s. It includes published articles, correspondence, and other materials.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials for Chinese studies, among which many are Soviet scholarship.
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library of Russian-language publications on Marxism and relevant subjects. Here one can find numerous digitized Soviet publications on Marxism and relevant social-political and economic issues.
Site dedicated to the Moscow metro and containing resources about its construction and history. It includes contemporaneous newspaper articles and personal accounts by various people (architects, engineers, builders) associated with the metro.
The digital library of the Russian Geographical Society, containing thousands of digitized books, maps, atlases, periodicals, expedition reports, and other types of materials of the Society.
Website with works by and about Russian religious thinkers and philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
TEHNE is a digital portal for Russian architects and designers supported by the Union of Architects of Russia and the Union of Designers of Russia. Its digital library provides open access to a great number of Soviet-era publications on architecture, urban planning, aesthetics, and art in general.
Open-access digital library containing digital copies of a considerable number of books and periodicals on architecture published in the Soviet Union.
The digital library of the Parliamentary Library of Russia, containing documents and publications of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, including published official laws, meeting records, published law collections, and works of legal studies. Many digital copies are available online.
Database on individuals evacuated from Leningrad during the Leningrad Blockade.
Two-volume document collection and oral history interview collection on the Great Terror in Georgia. The first volume includes six long interviews with the descendants of the victims of the Great Terror in Georgia, and the second volumes consists of archival documents and statistical data on the…