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Online exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art. Most of the exhibitions are dedicated to prominent Soviet Belarusian writers, poets, artists, and other cultural celebrities.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized books and other types of materials on a variety of topics, ranging from history and culture to housework and fitness. Among the shared materials many were published during the Soviet era.
Selections of Russian newspaper clippings on various issues in the early 20th century.
Online newspaper collections published by the State Archival Service of Novosibirsk Oblast.
Digital collection of journals and newspapers, mostly published in the Soviet era. Here you can access many important Soviet periodicals freely, such as Ogonek, Literaturnaia gazeta, and Sovetskii Soiuz.
Digitized journals and newspapers of the Russian National Library. Users can choose the date of publication to see what issues are available, or use the search bar at the top of the page to search titles of the publication.
Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
Digital exhibits from the Aleksandr Shilov Gallery.
Digital exhibits from the Ilia Glazunov Gallery.
Digital project that presents numerous digitized Soviet school textbooks.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Kuz'minki-Liublino.
Collection of audio recordings from prominent Soviet military officers.
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.
The official VK page of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs, where you can find numerous video and audio materials of the Soviet era.
The official website of the State Archive of the Altai Krai, which provides free access to numerous digitized archival materials from the archive.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky.
Digital exhibits from the State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of the Defense of Moscow.
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.
Documents, photographs, and artworks related to Konstatin Butorov, a Soviet Karelian artist.
Oral history interviews with former Gulag prisoners, their children, former exiles, and dispossessed kulaks
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
Resource on the demography of tsarist and Soviet Russia compiled by two academics, Aleksandr Avdeev of Moscow State University and Alain Blum of Institut national d'études démographiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. It contains a number of demographic data and maps.
Demographic data of the former Soviet states as well as other world countries provided by the Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economy. Here you can find different demographic indicators for 15 former Soviet states in different years and detailed Soviet census data.
Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection
Digitized lists of persons who were repressed under Stalin.
Diary entries of a deported Kurgan peasant from 1932.
Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
Digital editions of newspaper "Dobrovolets" from 1943 to 1944.
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
Several downloadable document collections published by the Foreign Ministry Archive of Russia.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Sumy Oblast, containing digital copies of metric books, cards of ostarbeiters and POWs during the Second World War, other wartime documents and personal correspondence, documents from various state organs, and digital findings aids for the documents.
Digital archive containing more than 130,000 pages of digitized OSHR documents from the fonds of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine.
Collection of archival documents on various topics in Soviet history.
Transcriptions of a set of archival documents on Soviet party organization and other issues.
Several transcribed documents about the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of the Provision Government.
Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
Historical materials on the history of the Novosibirsk Division of the Russian State Public Scientific-Technical Library.
Site with numerous documents (including directives, soldiers' personal documents, instructions, etc.) for Red Army soldiers, many of them from 1917-1945. The site is run by a group of colleagues led by Mikhailovskaia Artillery Military Academy scholar V. M. Mil'bakh.
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…
A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.