Журнали та газети - ЧТИВО (Journals and Newspapers - CHTYVO)
press
literature
art
theater
culture
science
humor
satire
everyday life
propaganda
literature & arts
A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
CHTYVO
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Ukrainian
Ukraine
История Актюбинской области (History of Aktobe Oblast)
local history
political institution
nationalities
geology
environment
infrastructure
local administration
Great Patriotic War
Digital portal that provides open access to archival documents, books, and periodicals relevant to Aktobe Oblast in Kazakhstan. Here you can find thematic collections of archival documents, Soviet-era local periodical issues, as well as books and various referential materials.
State Archive of Aktobe Oblast
Digital archive
Digital library
Russian
Kazakhstan
Aktobe Oblast
Central Asia
Электронная библиотека "Книгакан" (Digital Library "Knigakan")
ethnography
Dolgans
Evenks
ethnos
Yukaghir
Chukchi
local study
language
Tungus
national autonomy
folklore
folk culture
A special collection of the digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha consisting of publications related to different ethnic groups in Yakutia, including scholarly research, periodicals, and published official documents.
National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Yakutia
Siberia
Russia
Тематические подборки электронной библиотеки Национальной библиотеки Республики Саха (Якутия) (Thematic Collections of the Digital Library of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))
Yakuts
children
economy
family
demographics
history
foreign relations
foreign policy
music
leisure
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.
Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Адыгея (National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea)
Revolution
kolkhoz
agriculture
linguistics
archaeology
collectivization
Digital library of the National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea, containing hundreds of digital copies of Soviet-era publications on local culture, history, folklore, and development.
National Library of the Republic of Adygea
Adygea Republic
Caucasus
Kuban
Қазақстандық Ұлттық Электронды Кітапхана (Kazakhstan National Electronic Library)
printing
geography
social sciences
humanities
natural science
Digital project of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The digital library provides open access to digital copies of hundreds of thousands of books, periodicals, and other types of materials from different libraries in Kazakhstan. The collection includes a huge number of Soviet-era publications.
Kazakh
architecture
urban planning
engineering
urban history
aesthetics
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.
TEHNE
USSR
Газеты и журналы - NoZDR (Newspapers and Journals - NoZDR)
aviation
astronautics
military
cinema
medicine
health
chemistry
youth
technology
pioneer organization
sport
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.
NoZDR
Каталог мемуаров из архива Международного Мемориала (Catalog of Memoirs from the Archive of the International Memorial)
political repression
Great Terror
Gulag
NKVD
KGB
secret police
security service
justice
law
personal narrative
legal source
Digital archive of memoirs, diaries, and personal correspondence on Soviet political repressions from the fonds of the International Memorial. Most of these documents were not published. You can use thematic, geographical, and institutional indicators to search for relevant materials on this website.
Memorial
Online database
Austria
Georgia
Far East
Sakhalin
Altai
Uzbekistan
Moldova
Norway
Turkmenistan
Azerbaijan
Germany
Tatarstan
Kyrgyzstan
Bulgaria
Belarus
Eastern Europe
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Armenia
Tajikistan
USA
global
«ImWerden», электронная библиотека Андрея Никитина-Перенского (ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky)
philology
Digital library that provides free access to a great number of digital copies of Russian books and periodicals. You can also find audio recordings of authors reading their own works on this website.
ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky
«Вторая литература» : Электронный архив зарубежья имени Андрея Синявского (Vtoraia literatura: Andrei Sinyavsky Digital Archive of the Emigrants)
diaspora
Cossack
intelligence
emigration
A branch of the ImWerden digital library focusing on publications of Russian emigrants. Here you can find books and periodicals published by Russian emigrants throughout the 20th century, as well as publications aimed at the Russian diaspora communities around the world. Besides, the website provides free access to foreign-language journals, such as "Central Asian Review".
Vtoraia literatura: Andrei Sinyavsky Digital Archive of the Emigrants
English
Netherlands
France
Poland
Israel
Библиотеке Totalarch (Library "Totalarch")
housing
Open-access digital library containing digital copies of a considerable number of books and periodicals on architecture published in the Soviet Union.
Исторические материалы (Historical Materials)
Beria
Bukharin
political leader
trade
Gosplan
Zhdanov
Zinoviev
Kirov
cartography
dekulakization
Molotov
Trotsky
Politburo
population
foreign trade
rehabilitation
transportation
A private digital project that provides open access to a huge number of primary sources for researching Russian and Soviet history, including published materials, archival documents (transcriptions), statistics, and photographs.
Aleksei Markov
Aleksandr Tsypin
Nikolai Slavnitskii
Olga Osipova
ЕЛЕКТРОННА БІБЛІОТЕКА "УКРАЇНІКА" (Digital Library "Ukrainica")
religion
philosophy
demography
political science
historiography
education
public health
anthropology
archive
intellectual
statehood
Ukrainica is a national reference information and documentary resource of archival, handwritten, and printed sources created in Ukraine or other countries about Ukraine, its history, economy, culture, and people. The digital library now provides open access to tons of digitized books and other types of materials.
National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi
World War Ⅱ
Babyn Yar
Nazi
Holocaust
Jew
Digital archive containing hundreds of thousands of digitized documents from various Ukrainian archives related to the tragedy of Babyn Yar and the period of occupation of Kyiv during 1941–1943. The website also provides access to digitized finding aids and other referential materials for relevant archival documents.
State Archive Service of Ukraine
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
МІЖАРХІВНИЙ ПОШУКОВИЙ ПОРТАЛ (INTERARCHIVE SEARCH PORTAL)
Ukrainian Revolution
Unified search engine for digital resources of three state archives of Ukraine: Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government, Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art, and Central State Archives of Public Organizations. Here you can find access to extensive digital copies of finding aids and original documents.
Virtuaalne uurimissaal - Rahvusarhiiv (Virtual Reading Room of the National Archives of Estonia)
veteran
Russian Revolution
dissident
Cold War
television
Information portal of the National Archives of Estonia, where you can find links to various digital archives, digital libraries, online databases, and digital projects of Estonian archives.
National Archives of Estonia
Estonian
Baltics
FILMIARKHIIVI INFOSÜSTEEM (FIS) (Film Archive Information System (FIS))
Digital film and sound archive of the National Archives of Estonia. Here you can find thousands of Soviet Estonian movies as well as sound recordings. Movies can be played on the website directly.
Digitized archival documents from the National Archives of Estonia. Though most documents are from the pre-1940 period, one can still find a lot of Soviet-era documents from this website.
Електронний архів - Державний архів Вінницької області (Digital Archive of the State Archive of Vinnytsia Oblast)
Party organization
police
Digital archive of the State Archive of the Vinnytsia Oblast that contains descriptions of the fonds and digital copies of extensive documents from local party and state organs. Notably, the digital archive contains a lot of documents from the local security service.
State Archive of Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast
Електронний архів - Державний архів Волинської області (Digital Archive of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast)
Digital archive of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast. It contains descriptions of the fonds of the archive, and extensive digital copies of documents related to local administration, the Jewish community, and other topics. Notably, it provides open access to a great number of documents from the local KGB office.
State Archive of Volyn Oblast
Volyn
Виставки Online - Державний архів Рівненської Області (Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of Rivne Oblast)
Czech
deportation
Taras Shevchenko
resistance
Holodomor
Soviet-Afghan War
Lesya Ukrainka
German colony
Many interesting and well-organized online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Rivne Oblast.
State Archive of Rivne Oblast
Online exhibition
Rivne Oblast
Оцифровані справи - Державний архів Рівненської Області (Digitized Cases of the State Archive of Rivne Oblast)
OUN
UPA
ethnic conflict
Digitized copies of documents from the State Archive of Rivne Oblast. Currently, it has a collection of materials on the OUN-UPA that operated on the territory of the Rivne region; a collection of local civil status registration documents from imperial till Soviet times; and a collection of Soviet-era Rivne Regional Council documents.
Документи on-line - Державний архів Сумської області (Document Online - State Archive of Sumy Oblast)
P.O.W.
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.
State Archive of Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast
Архів архівного законодавствa (Archive of Archival Legislation)
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.
Центральний державний електроний архів України (Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine)
Verkhovna Rada
nationalism
Chernobyl
Digital archive that contains abundant digitized documents from different Ukrainian archives from the imperial and Soviet periods. Notably, it has a collection of criminal cases from the KGB archive of Crimea. The website also has several online exhibitions.
Crimea
Donetsk
E-KINAS Virtualus kino archyvas (E-KINAS Virtual Movie Archive)
festival
Archive of Lithuanian movies from 1930 till today, containing thousands of Soviet Lithuanian productions.
Lithuanian Central State Archive
Lithuanian
Digital Repository of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
bibliography
The digital repository of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences contains digitized materials from the holdings of the Library (cultural heritage and scholarly sources, old books and periodicals, manuscripts, old postcards, drawings, photographs, etc.) and digital publications by the Library (bibliographies, catalogs, scholarly articles, publications published on various occasions, etc.).
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Digital Archive of Ukrainian Liberation Movement
Ukrainian liberation movement
insurgency
Prague Spring
Crimean Tatar
A huge digital archive containing extensive documents from different archives in Ukraine, dedicated to Ukrainian national and resistant movements under the Soviet regime.
Center for Research on the Liberation Movement
Lviv National Ivan Franko University
Виставки - Державний архів м. Києва (Exhibitions of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv)
Kureniv tragedy
Well-organized online exhibitions with abundant archival documents.
State Archive of the City of Kyiv
Kyiv
Е-Архів - Державний архів м. Києва (E-Archive of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv)
genealogy
Digital archive of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv. It contains information about the archive's fonds and digital finding aids for archival documents. It also has digital birth records of the city from 1919-1936 and digitized civil status registration documents of Kyiv from 1925-1935. Besides, it includes an online archive on the Chernobyl disaster based on archival documents from Kyiv city.
Е-Архів - Державний архів Київської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast)
Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Agency
Digital archive of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast. Currently, it provides open access to more than four thousand digital copies of archival documents from four fonds of the archive.
State Archive of Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast
е-АРХІВ МИХАЙЛА ГРУШЕВСЬКОГО (Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archives)
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
nation-building
Digital archive collectively developed by a series of Ukrainian cultural and academic institutions dedicated to Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital archive contains a library section, where you can download digitized copies of works of M. Hrushevsky and studies on him. In the archival section, you can find archival documents related to M. Hrushevsky's life and his work. The website also has an online gallery and links to relevant external internet resources.
Collective project of Ukrainian research institutions, archives, libraries, and museums.
Інститут історії України (Institute of History of Ukraine)
Official website of the Institute of History of Ukraine, which presents a lot of useful digital resources. It provides access to digitized encyclopedias of the history of Ukraine published in different years. Its digital library contains full-text academic publications - books and periodicals - on the history of Ukraine published from the 1930s till today. On the "Projects" page, you can find various digital projects on Ukrainian history. The "Internet resources" page has links to hundreds of relevant external resources for studying the history of Ukraine.
Institute of History of Ukraine
Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України (Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine)
Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce
emigre
Official website of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. There are many interesting document exhibitions under the "ВИСТАВКИ" section. In the "Збірники документів" sub-section, you can download PDF versions of many document collections published by the archive. Also, on the main page of the website, there are links to several digital archives.
Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
Digital project
Turkey
Збірники документів - Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України (Document Collections of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine)
Ukrainian People's Republic
Downloadable document collections published by the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. Most of these collections are dedicated to Ukrainian People's Republic. Other topics include Holodomor and Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Ukraine.
Digital document collection
Документи оперативного штабу Рейхсляйтера Розенберга (Documents of the Operating Headquarters of Reichsleiter Rosenberg)
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.
German
Berlin
Belgium
E-resource - оцифровані фонди - Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України (E-resource - Digitized Funds of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine)
Digitized fonds information, finding aids, and some original documents of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine.
Digital archive that provides open access to a large body of Ukrainian historical periodicals. Currently, the project has digitized more than 600 periodical editions in Ukrainian, Polish, German, Romanian, Yiddish, Crimean Tatar, and Russian languages published in various regions in Ukraine and abroad from the late 19th century to the early 2010s.
Scientific Library of the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko
Ukrainian State Scientific Archive Library
Polish
Romanian
Yiddish
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Romania
Ukrainian Studies
ideology
poetry
Digital library that contains digital copies of Ukrainian diaspora publications from the pre-revolution period through the post-Soviet era.
Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Classical Private University (Zaporizhia)
Canada
Russian Civil War
Kronstadt Rebellion
Sino-Soviet relations
Sino-Soviet split
women
Digital archive of English-language primary source documents, essays, books, and personal accounts related to Soviet history. Some of these are original English documents and accounts, some are English translations of Russian-language originals. The website also provides free access to digitized Soviet English-language journals, such as Sputnik and Soviet Woman.
Marxists Internet Archive
Интернет-ресурсы по отечественной периодической печати - ГПИБР (Internet resources on domestic periodicals - SPHLR)
This section on the website of the State Public Historical Library of Russia provides links to digital resources on Soviet and Russian periodicals. You can go to the Soviet section and follow the alphabetic indicators to find relevant online resources for the publication you want. The section also provides links to digital resources on Russian emigres periodicals.
State Public Historical Library of Russia
Электронный архив национальной периодики - Национальная библиотека Узбекистана (Digital Archive of National Periodicals - National Library of Uzbekistan)
diplomacy
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.
National Library of Uzbekistan
Uzbek
Tashkent
library
ethnology
mathematics
fishing
ecology
nature
Information portal developed by the National Library of Latvia for searching and accessing digital materials from different sources.
National Library of Latvia
Latvian
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.
ePaveldas
general
Digital library of the National Library of Estonia, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of Soviet-era Estonian publications.
National Library of Estonia
ЕЛЕКТРОННА БІБЛІОТЕКА "ІСТОРИЧНА СПАДЩИНА УКРАЇНИ" (Digital Library "Historical Heritage of Ukraine")
Kiev
Academy of Sciences
Digital library of the Historical Library of Ukraine, containing digital copies of old publications on Ukrainian culture and history.
National Historical Library of Ukraine
Архів друкованих видань Всеукраїнської Академії Наук 1919-1931 (Archive of Printed Publications of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences )
pedagogy
economics
museum
Digital project that provides open access to digitized academic serials of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences published during 1919-1931.
ЦИФРОВА БІБЛІОТЕКА ІСТОРИКО-КУЛЬТУРНОЇ СПАДЩИНИ - Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського (Digital Library of Historical and Cultural Heritage - National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi)
psychology
Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi, containing digital copies of extensive old publications on Ukrainian culture and history.
Книжкові пам’ятки України (Book Monuments of Ukraine)
book
Digital project developed by the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise, presenting digital copies of rare publications from/on Ukraine.
The National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise
Galicia
Volhynia
Saint-Petersburg