БД Персональный состав РАН (Database "Personnel of the Russian Academy of Sciences")
scholarship
science
culture
intellectual
Russian Academy of Sciences
Database of biographical information of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the 17th century till today.
Link to the Resource
Online database
Russian
Russia
Электронная библиотека РНБ (Digital Library of the Russian National Library)
general
art
children
Russian Revolution
music
folklore
cartography
history
Great Patriotic War
Leningrad Blockade
literature
Russian avant-garde
urban history
sport
propaganda
literature & arts
Digital library of the Russian National Library, providing free access to a large number of digitized pre-revolution and Soviet literature.
Russian National Library
Digital library
other
USSR
Библиотечные и архивные ресурсы Государственной Думы (Library and Archival Resources of the State Duma of Russia)
law
legislation
legal studies
legal source
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.
The State Duma of Russia
Dokumentų paieška - Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas (Document search - Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania)
Online database of legal acts of Lithuania, containing the official texts of legislation adopted in Lithuania during its Soviet period. It also contains texts of international laws and international agreements that involved Lithuania.
Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
Lithuanian
English
German
French
Italian
Latvian
Estonian
Polish
Spanish
Belarusian
Ukrainian
Lithuania
Baltics
Europe
Eastern Europe
Latvia
Estonia
Poland
Belarus
Ukraine
Библиотека нормативно-правовых актов СССР (Library of the Legal Acts of the USSR)
A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.
Library of Legal Acts of the USSR
Digital collection
ИПС "Әділет" Legal information system of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan
local administration
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
Institute of legislation and legal information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakh
Kazakhstan
Central Asia
National Database of Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Online database of the official texts of legislation of Uzbekistan from 1925 till today.
National Center of Legal Information “Adolat”
Uzbek
Uzbekistan
Электронная библиотека «Наука права» (Digital Library "Science of Law")
justice
court
An online library of laws and legal studies. It provides open access to Soviet and Russian legal sources and legal literature.
Digital Library "Science of Law"
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of Russia
Archive of the Federal Protective Service of Russia
Central Archive of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiia)
Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
OF-226
Russian and early Soviet sheet music collection
A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
Columbia University Libraries
USA
Osip Mandelʹshtam Papers, 1900-1979 (mostly 1914-1937)
Osip Mandelʹshtam
The collection consists of Russian-language works, correspondence, and printed matter of Mandelʹshtam. It contains holograph and typed manuscripts of his poems, reviews, articles, and essays, often in draft form representing different stages of his work, many of which are in the hand of his wife, Nadezhda, who acted as his amanuensis.
Princeton University Library
Cold War
foreign relations
censorship
migration
personal narrative
The Wende Museum is an art museum and historical archive dedicated to the Cold War. Its online collections consist of artworks, artifacts, documents, films, and historical witness interviews related to the subject.
The Wende Museum
Albanian
Hungarian
Romanian
Albania
East Germany
Hungary
Romania
Электронная библиотека Института русской литературы (Пушкинского Дома) РАН (Digital Library of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
The digital library of the Institute of Russian Literature of the RAS, providing free access to digital copies of the Institute's publications and other literary studies publications.
Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Рукописи онлайн (Manuscripts Online - Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature, RAS)
Aleksandr Blok
Andrei Belyi
Innokentii Annenskii
Marina Tsvetaeva
Fedor Sologub
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
economy
everyday life
agriculture
healthcare
infrastructure
women
army
Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
ABAmedia
China
Bulgaria
Egypt
Cuba
global
Jewish
anti-Semitism
nationality
war
military
World War II
education
holiday
festival
political leader
religion
Judaism
POW
holocaust
architecture
political repression
The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of various types.
Len Blavatnik
Digital archive
Yiddish
Germany
France
Austria
Czech Republic
Israel
Asia
Georgia
South Caucasus
Azerbaijan
Moldova
Mongolia
Glasnost
Perestroika
society
late socialism
collapse of the USSR
An online exhibit of digitized Soviet and Russian newspaper editions from the 1980s through the 1990s that illuminate the transformation of Russian society in that period.
Thomas C. Wolfe
Online exhibition
human rights
Communism
politics
Soviet-Afghan War
Blinken OSA Library houses a non-circulating reference library of books related to the Cold War, Communism, international human rights, history of broadcasting and the archival profession as well as a collection of more than 7.300 dailies and journals published from the 1950s onwards in 40 languages. Most of the items were created by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute.
Central European University
Czech
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Afghanistan
Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives (LONTAD)
League of Nations
international relations
World War Ⅰ
World War Ⅱ
refugee
The entirely digitize League of Nations Archives, estimated to contain some 15 million pages of content. The archives include tons of Soviet-related documents on a variety of topics.
United Nations Library Geneva
Africa
Armenia
United Nations
The UN Archives Geneva platform gives access to the fonds and collections managed by the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva, including the archives of the United Nations in Geneva, the League of Nations (1919-1946), international peace movements (from 1870), and private papers. The digital copies of many documents, including the entire League of Nations archives, are freely downloadable through the platform. For other undigitized files, the online platform can be used as a comprehensive digital finding aid.
«Письма о Ташкенте» — художественный исторический альманах ("Letters about Tashkent" - artistic historical almanac)
memory
Tashkent
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.
Evgenii Skljarevski
Andrei Sakharov
dissent
nuclear technology
Elena Bonner
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 criticism; reviews and reviews; materials in protection and support; academic degrees, honorary titles, awards, prizes), materials for Sakharov's genealogy. Records that are not directly available on the website can be requested online.
Archive of Sakharov
mosaic
national culture
A website dedicated to mosaics in Tajikistan's architecture and artwork. On this site, users can browse photos of Tajikistan's mosaic artworks, locate them on a digital map, and learn about the artists and history of the mosaics.
Bactria
Digital project
Tajikistan
Project "J-Doc" focuses on state policies of the USSR that affected Jews. It provides free access to various types of sources, including archival documents, periodicals, and oral history interviews.
Nadav Foundation
theater
poetry
linguistics
A website with a large number of digital copies of publications on Uzbek language, literature, and folklore. Many of these publications are contemporary works, but there is also a large amount of Soviet publications on the website. Apart from literary works and literary scholarship, the website also contains other scholarly publications produced in Uzbekistan over time.
Davronbek Tozhialiev
World War I
secret police
collectivization
communism
KGB
deportation
concentration camp
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 repressed by the Soviet or Nazi regimes, people who escaped Estonia during the occupations of said regimes or arrived in Estonia as a result of the occupations.
Estonian Institute of Historical Memory
Western Europe
Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus
rehabilitation
ideology
A civic project that collects and presents oral history interviews, photographs, archival documents, and other materials related to Soviet political repressions in Belarus.
Islam
insurgency
Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey.
Caucasus
Siberia
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Pakistan
Soviet Jewish Oral History Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland)
This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a dissertation, information sheets, interview protocols, lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, oral history user agreements, procedures, programs, progress reports, reports, a script, a student paper, and transcripts of interviews.
Western Reserve Historical Society
Gulag
Oral history interviews with victims and witnesses of Soviet political repressions.
MEMORIAL International
The Horrors of the Chernobyl Catastrophe: An Oral History Interview with Denys Stavnichny
Chernobyl
Oral history interview with Mr. Denys Stavnychyi by St. Andrew's Episcopal School Student Conrad Osipowicz. In this interview Stavnychyi, who lived in the Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, reiterates the seriousness of the tragedy and reflects on the inefficiency of the government that affected many people during the crisis.
Conrad Osipowicz
1986
Protestant
church
A project that collects and presents materials about the experience of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the USSR.
Miriam Dobson
Nadezhda Beliakova