Советский спутник--первый в мире! К 60-летию запуска Первого искусственного спутника земли (The Soviet Sputnik was the First in the World! 60th Anniversary of the Launch of the First Man-Made Satellite of the Earth)
space race
Cold War
Sputnik
science
technology
aviation
astronautics
A digital exhibit with documents about the development of Soviet space technologies. It contains pamphlets, photographs, and official documents.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
USSR
СОВЕТСКИЙ ЭКРАН (Soviet Screen) VK Group
film
cinema
cartoon
culture
art
leisure
television
literature & arts
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
Larisa Kravchenko
VK group
Social media
music
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.
Советское радио. ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД (Soviet Radio. Gosteleradiofond) YouTube Channel
radio
media
radio play
children
literature
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents audio recordings of Soviet radio programs, including various radio plays, readings of Russian and Soviet literature works, programs for children, etc.
Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs (Gosteleradiofond)
?-1991
YouTube channel
Советское телевидение. ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД (Soviet TV. Gosteleradiofond)YouTube Channel
entertainment
theater
celebrity
sport
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents video recordings of Soviet TV programs, including films and TV series, news, music, documentaries, programs on sports and culture, etc.
celebrities
sports
Соловки. Пасха. Тексты и воспоминания узников СЛОНа. (Solovki. Easter. Texts and memoirs of the prisoners of SLON)
Gulag
Great Terror
memory
Solovki
purge
Audio recording of memoirs on the secret celebration of Easter in Soviet Solovki prison camp.
Fond Iofe
Digital project
socialist realism
propaganda
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
Союзмультфильм (Soiuzmul'tfil'm) YouTube Channel
folklore
fairy tale
The official YouTube Channel of the film studio "Soiuzmul'tfil'm", where you can find hundreds of Soviet cartoons.
Soiuzmul'tfil'm
Сталин И.В. Сочинения: Т. 1–18. (I.V. Stalin's Works: V.1-18.)
ideology
Stalinism
nationalities
nationalism
economy
agriculture
industrialization
political institution
political leader
peasantry
Great Patriotic War
Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
Library of Mikhail Grachev
Caucasus
Сталин, Черчилль, Рузвельт: совместная борьба с нацизмом (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt: The Common Struggle Against Fascism)
World War Ⅱ
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
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.
Austria
Australia
Arctic
Africa
Arkhangelsk
Potsdam-Babelsberg
Azerbaijan
Sevastopol
Balkans
Belgorod
Belarus
Germany
Berlin
Vienna
East Prussia
Netherlands
Denmark
Egypt
Italy
India
Iran
Canada
Lithuania
China
Moldova
Kolomna
Crimea
Latvia
Latin America
Kursk
Leningrad
Libya
London
Lviv
Montreal
Moscow
Murmansk
New Zealand
Norway
Normandie
New York
Odessa
Paris
Poland
Potsdam
Romania
North Carolina
Serbia
Singapore
Smolensk
Middle East
Stalingrad
Mediterranean
USA
Morocco
Tehran
Ukraine
Turkey
France
Finland
Black Sea
Estonia
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
South America
Yalta
Japan
Сталинград. К 75-летию разгрома советскими войсками немецко-фашистских войск в Сталинградской битве (Stalingrad: 75th Anniversary of the Victory of Soviet Forces over Nazi German Forces in the Battle of Stalingrad)
Battle of Stalingrad
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.
Russia
Сталинский букварь (Stalinist primer) VK Group
school
education
The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.
Dmitrii Frontov
Становление Человека (Becoming a Human) VK Group
communism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
general
poetry
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books, many of which are Soviet publications of various types.
periodicals
everyday life
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
Статистика военных лет (Statistics of the War Years)
statistics
A statistical collection about the Great Patriotic War published by the Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia.
Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia
Digital document collection
СТУДЕНТ-ИСТОРИК (Student-Historian) VK Group
history
A VK (V Kontakte) group created by the students of the history department of Moscow State University. The group shares materials, both primary sources and secondary literature, for studying various subjects, including Soviet history.
global
Ostarbeiter
P.O.W.
oral history
personal narrative
Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
Memorial
Hungary
Eastern Europe
Тамиздат: Русская литература за пределами СССР в электронном архиве документов (1956-1991) (Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature across Borders: An Online Archive of Documents (1956-1991))
diaspora
book
press
printing
dissident
Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors, their works, publishers, critics, and reviewers. Many publications can be read online from the website.
Digital library
Israel
Творчество фронтового поколение (Art of the Frontline Generation)
Document collection dedicated to Soviet artwork during the Great Patriotic War, published by the State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast.
T. N. Gutyra
Iu. G. Martynova
Novosibirsk Oblast
Online exibition of audio recordings of performances from major Russian theaters in the 1940s and 1950s.
Russian State Archive of Phono Documents
Online exhibition
Театральная мозаика Карелии (Theatrical mosaic of Karelia)
urban history
Documents and photographs on the development of the theater industry in Karelia from pre-revolution times through the early 2000s.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Republic of Karelia
Театральная периодика (Theatrical Periodicals)
dramaturgy
Digital editions of several Petersburg theatrical journals from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
St. Petersburg State Theater Library
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
Evenks
folk culture
local administration
national autonomy
family
language
demographics
foreign relations
foreign policy
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.
National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Yakutia
Siberia
Тематические разработки архивных документов и базы данных Архивной службы Беларуси (Thematic Selections of Archival Documents and Databases of the State Archival Service of Belarus)
Revolution
nation-building
partisan
guerilla warfare
intellectual
veteran
architecture
urban planning
administrative-territorial division
Several thematic online exhibitions of archival documents on the establishment of Belarus statehood, the Great Patriotic War, prominent Belarus individuals, as well as pre-revolution historical events.
State Archival Service of Belarus
Belarusian
Территория – Камчатка (Territory - Kamchatka)
local study
anthropology
A section on the local study of Kamchatka on the website of the Kamchatka Krasheninnikov Regional Scientific Library. It provides links to downloadable PDF versions of publications on the ethnic minorities of Kamchatka. Many of these publications are Soviet ethnographic studies.
Kamchatka Krai Krasheninnikov Scientific Library
Kamchatka
Far East
Тихоокеанская звезда (Tikhookeanskaia zvezda)
Five-Year Plan
internationalism
diplomacy
Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
Far East State Scientific Library
Khabarovsk
Culture
art and architecture
avant-garde
Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Il'ia Starkov
Томская электронная библиотека (Tomsk Digital Library)
social sciences
political science
military
philology
linguistics
religion
philosophy
chemistry
physics
mathematics
biology
forestry
public health
medicine
law
psychology
natural science
legal source
Digital library of Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library, providing access to extensive digital copies of Soviet-era local publications.
Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
Tomsk Oblast
ТОРЖЕСТВУЮЩАЯ ПЛУТОКРАТИЯ (Trivious Plutocracy) VK Group
U.S.-Soviet relations
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
Europe
Трагедия белорусских деревень 1941-1944. Документы и материалы. (The Tragedy of Belarusian Villages 1941-1944. Documents and Materials. )
village
Digitized collection of archival documents about Belarusian villages burned during the Great Patriotic War.
Department of Archives and Clerical Work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus
National Archive of the Republic of Belarus
World Belarus Fond
Russian Fond of Aid to Current Historical Research "Historical Memory"
Трагедия Советской деревни. Коллективизация и раскулачивание (The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization, 1927-1939)
collectivization
dekulakization
famine
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kazakhstan
Три интервью с Э.Б. Ершовым (Three Interviews with E. B. Ershov)
Gosplan
history of science
ACS
Transcript of three interviews with Emil' Ershov, a prominent Soviet economist. The interviews touch upon a series of topics related to the Soviet economy, science, and the relationship between the two.
Grigorii Sapov Buro
Три стороны одной трагедии (Three Dimensions of One Tragedy)
Russian Civil War
Red Army
White Army
Czechoslovak Legion
Collaborative project led by the State Archive of Administrative Organs of the Sverdlovsk Oblast dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia and Ural. The project is well-designed and presents extensive archival documents and other historical materials.
State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Ural
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Perm Krai
Omsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast
Kurgan Oblast
Трудовой подвиг жителей Чувашии (Labor Achievement of the Residents of Chuvashia)
The project is dedicated to the Chuvash constructors of the Sursk and Kazan defence lines during the Great Patriotic War. It presents a considerable number of archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic.
State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvash Republic
Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы ФГБУН (Udmurt Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Udmurt
national culture
The collection includes works by employees of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the history of the region and various scientific areas of Finno-Ugric studies (linguistics, literary criticism, folklore, history, art criticism, ethnography), as well as terminological dictionaries, collections of folklore, materials scientific conferences, bibliographic indexes.
Udmurt Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Udmurt Republic
Ульяновская область: Документы Победы (Ulyanovsk Oblast: Documents of Victory)
evacuation
industrial development
Komsomol
youth
A comprehensive database on the Great Patriotic War in Ulyanovsk Oblast, including online exhibitions of archival documents, databases on biographies of war participants, war-time video and radio clips, and downloadable document collections on the subject.
State Archive of Contemporary History of Ulyanovsk Oblast
Online database
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Уникальные проекты страны Советов. Историко-документальная выставка. (Unique Projects of the nations of Soviets: A Historico-documentary Exhibit)
transportation
Online exhibit of the Russian state archive in Samara. It presents documents and photographs relating to several large Soviet technological, scientific, and construction projects.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Victor Ardov
Victor Shklovskii
Igor Shelkovskii
A digital archive of oral histories on everyday life, science, technology, and the experiences of the technical-intellectual elite in the USSR.
Moscow State University
Digital archive
The official YouTube channel of an oral history project, Ustnaia istoriia, initiated by the Moscow State University focusing on culture and science. On the channel you can find recordings of oral history interviews conducted within this project.
English
Участвуем в святом деле спасения Родины. Власть, церковь, казачество в годы Великой Отечественной Войны. (Participate in the Sacred Duty of Saving the Motherland. State, church, and Cossacks in the years of the Great Patriotic War)
church
Cossack
Document collection on the role of Russian Orthodox Church and Cossacks in the Great Patriotic War.
Russian State Archive of Socio-political History
Участие армянского народа в Великой Отечественной войне (The Participation of the Armenian People in the Great Patriotic War)
Online database on the Armenian participation in the Great Patriotic War. It has collected Soviet and contemporary books and media content on the subject, as well as the biographic data of Armenian war participants.
National Library of Armenia
Armenian
Armenia
Федеральная электронная медицинская библиотека (Federal Digital Medical Library of Russia)
health
scholarship
A Russian federal digital library that contains tens of thousands of documents related to medicine and health. One can find extensive Soviet scholarly literature on medical science in the library.
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Федеральный архивный проект: Преступления нацистов и их пособников против мирного населения СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг. (Federal Archival Project: The Crimes of Nazis and their Collaborators Against the Civilian Population of the USSR in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Nazi
SMERSH
NKVD
secret police
KGB
occupation
concentration camp
Jewish
women
aging
disability
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 mentally ill, Jews, women, partisans, the elderly, Romani people, the sick, and prisoners of war.
Фильмы киностудии "Таджикфильм" (Films of Film Studio "Tajikfilm") YouTube playlist
A YouTube playlist of Soviet films produced by the film studio "Tajikfilm" and other Tajikistan-related videos.
Tajikfilm
Tajik
Tajikistan
Central Asia