Электронная библиотека исторических документов (Electronic Library of Historical Documents)
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Great Patriotic War
Cold War
Perestroika
science
technology
aviation
political institution
anti-Semitism
Jewish
White Army
law
justice
Gulag
foreign relations
Comintern
youth
security service
partisan
economy
peasantry
administrative-territorial division
New Economic Policy
legal source
Digital library of various historical documents developed by the Russian Historical Society.
Russian Historical Society
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
Russia
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Armenia
Georgia
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Central Asia
South Caucasus
USSR
global
Germany
Экономика Революции, 1917-1920 гг. (The Economy of the Revolution, 1917-1920)
finance
industry
agriculture
trade
infrastructure
railroad
Document exhibition dedicated to the economic development during the Russian Revolution and early years of the Soviet power.
Russian State Archive of Economy
Digital project
Военная экономика СССР--фундамент Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 г. (Wartime Economy of the USSR: The Foundation of the Victory of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945)
evacuation
military supplies
everyday life
lend-lease
taxation
revenue
Document collection on Soviet economy during the Great Patriotic War.
Soviet bloc
Party organization
Hungarian-Soviet relations
Integrated digital archive of Hungary's major archives. Here you can find digital copies or digital transcriptions of many Communist-era documents related to Soviet-Hungarian relations.
National Archives of Hungary
Digital archive
Hungarian
Hungary
Eastern Europe
Виртуальные выставки Российского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Virtual Exhibits of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History)
Brusilov Offensive
military
Russian Patriarchate
religion
education
Campaign against illiteracy
labor school
professional education
Revolution
archive
scholarship
Leon Trotsky
Red Army
international relations
Communism
Komsomol
Terror
Soviet-Finnish relations
humanities
Spanish Russian Civil War
interbrigades
Vietnam War
Soviet-Vietnamese relations
culture
Cossack
Khrushchev
pioneer organization
P.O.W.
purge
Stalin
Lenin
Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
Online exhibition
Europe
Asia
World War Ⅱ
Winter War
Sino-Soviet relations
The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. Many newspaper articles are related to the Soviet Union. Notably, there are both Chinese-language and English-language newspapers in this database.
Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries
Chinese
English
Hong Kong
China
Japan
Электронный каталог Российской государственной библиотеки (Electronic Catalog of the Russian State Library)
history
archaeology
chemistry
physics
mathematics
literature
health
economics
social sciences
biology
linguistics
natural science
general
literature & arts
Collection of digital open-access published materials from between 1917 and 1991 in the Russian State Library. In the link, the filter "otkrytii dostup" is already selected; if it is not, one should select it in order to view publicly available books.
Russian State Library
Ukrainian
other
Фонды государственного архива Российской федерации (The Fonds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
Nicholas II
bibliography
Alexander Kerensky
Provisional Government
February Revolution
dance
Anna Pavlova
Cossacks
Ilia Erenburg
Dmitrii Shostakovitch
music
Duma
Battle of Stalingrad
Leningrad Blockade
July Crisis
citizenship
constitution
state
propaganda
urban culture
Vršič Pass
celebration
Online finding aids and digital archive of the Russian State Archive.
State Archive of the Russian Federation
Digital collection
Публикации онлайн - сборники документов ГАРФ (Online Publications - Document Collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
rebellion
Russian Orthodox Church
Great Terror
Downloadable document collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The collection contains 20 publications covering several major topics in Soviet history, including the Great Terror, World War Ⅱ, the Russian Orthodox Church under Soviet power, etc.
Digital document collection
Ukraine
國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
intelligence
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Manchuria
communism
diplomacy
foreign policy
press
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read online.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Japanese
Mongolia
Публикации онлайн. Государственный архив Российской Федерации. (Online Publications of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
Pavlo Skoropadsky
Purges
Soviet Occupation
East Germany
Anton Denikin
Alexander Kolchak
Online publications, including document collections, digital projects, and thematic collections, of the Russian State Archive.
Сборники документов и материалов государственного архива Томской области (Document and Material Collections of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast)
Tomsk
home front
medics
deportation
Nazino Tragedy
Siberia
personal narrative
veteran
A number of digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.
State Archive of Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Online newspaper collections published by the State Archival Service of Novosibirsk Oblast.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Персональная биобиблиография (Bio-bibliography of Important Personages)
academics
Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
statesmen
intellectual
A list of prominent scholars, cultural figures, and statesmen of Novosibirsk and of Russia in general. Though some of the pages include partial or full-text documents ("polnotekstovyie dokumenty), the primary use of this site is as a bibliographic resource. It gives a very clear and detailed idea of the works both by and about these figures which are available online and elsewhere.
State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bibliography
women
Korean War
Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
Online database
North Korea
Far East
Электронная библиотека Белинки (Electronic Library "Belinki")
forestry
folklore
local study
local administration
local history
healthcare
Digital library with digitized materials from libraries in the Ural region.
Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library
Ural
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы (Memoirs about the Gulag and their Authors)
crime
political police
labor camp
prisoners
Memoirs of Gulag prisoners or their descendants.
The A. D. Sakharov Archive
Работы А. Д. Сахарова (The Works of A. D. Sakharov)
Andrei Sakharov
dissident
human rights
Digital texts of Andrei Sakharov's publications, public speeches, interview transcriptions, and memoirs.
База данных документов архива Александра Н. Яковлева (Database of Documents of the Alexander N. Iakovlev Archive)
art
nationalities
theater
economic policy
Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
The Alexander N. Yakovlev Archive
Все коллекции Президентской библиотеки (All the Collections of the Presidential Library of Russia)
Iulian Semienov
journalism
intervention
Red terror
komsomol
postwar reconstruction
sculpture
Albert Charkin
society
gosudarstvennost'
economic planning
economic regulation
state Hermitage
museum
historical preservation
Daniil Granin
Kremlin
urban history
architecture
voting
elections
space program
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii
film
Mikhail Anikushin
Maxim Gorky
sport
Arctic
space race
memory
anarchism
emigre
Pitirim Sorokin
sociology
geography
travel
Avant-Garde
map
Soviet-Japanese relations
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Peter Kropotkin
Olympic Games
parks and gardens
Russian-Japanese War
volunteer
War Communism
Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Отечественная периодика в фонде президентской библиотеки (Domestic Periodicals in the Fonds of the Presidential Library)
legislation
politics
Academy of Sciences
leisure
children
Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
База данных документов архива Егора Гайдара (Database of Documents of the Iegor Gaidar Archive)
Soviet-Afghan War
oil
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.
The Iegor Gaidar Fond
Afghanistan
Собрание рукописей и старопечатных книг (Manuscripts and Out-of-print Books Collection)
Orthodox church
religious policy
A huge digital collection of church manuscripts and old books from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
The Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library
Central State Archive of Moscow
Division of the State Archive of Yaroslav Oblast in Rybinsk
Электронная библиотека Санкт-Петербургской государственной театральной библиотеки (Electronic Library of the St. Petersburg State Theater Library)
dramaturgy
A collection of documents and materials on the performing arts: archival documents and letters from theater workers, dramatic works, art periodicals, books, original sketches of theater artists, etc.
St. Petersburg State Theater Library
Документы Организации Объединенных Наций (Documents of the United Nations)
arms race
disarmament
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
The United Nations
Arabic
French
Spanish
Мир Петербурга: Портал Центра петербурговедения библиотеки им. В. В. Маяковского (The World of Petersburg: The Portal of the V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies)
St. Petersburg
This website contains a large amount of material about the history of St. Petersburg. Particularly useful are the "knigi o peterburge" and the "online-biblioteka" tabs. In the online library, the "kollektsii" and "Peterburg v gazetnykh illiustratsiiakh" are particularly interesting.
V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies
Документы ХХ века (Documents of the XX Century)
A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
Viacheslav Rumiantsev
Belarus
Austria
Africa
Bulgaria
Israel
India
Moldova
Latvia
LIthuania
Estonia
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Исторические источники. Хронос (Historical Sources. Khronos)
late Soviet period
fashion
cinema
astronautics
radio
medicine
family
Digital archive of major Soviet journals.
Viktor Yudichev@narod.ru
Soviet Archives Collected by Vladimir Bukovsky
secret police
NKVD
KGB
Vladimir Bukovsky
Communist Party
terror
ideology
Soviet archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky on various domestic political and foreign policy issues.
Julia Zaks
Leonid Chernikhov
Europa
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Digital archive containing 20th-Century US legal documents on American diplomacy. You can find many documents on Soviet-US relations here.
Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library
Периодические издания и краеведческие материалы Ленинградской области (Periodical Publications and Local Study Materials of Leningrad Oblast)
Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
Leningrad Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Leningrad Oblast
Akhiva Digitală a Republicii Sovietice Socialiste Moldoveneşti (Digital Archive of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova)
atheism
demographics
ecology
poetry
Digital library of various types of published materials from the Moldova SSR.
Vitalie Sprinceana
Romanian
Электронная библиотека - Историческое и культурное наследие Еврейской автономной области (Digital Library - Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
Birobidzhan
nature
national culture
Digital library that contains digital books, periodicals, photographs, videos, and audio materials on the history, people, and culture of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the city of Birobidzhan.
Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Yiddish
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Интернет-проекты Российского государственного архива фонодокументов (Online Projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments)
World War Ⅰ
Russian Arctic
party and state leaders
Antarctic
October Revolution
aerospace
Online projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments covering various topics, such as the October Revolution, the Russian Russian Civil War, two World Wars, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic, leaders' speeches, the Soviet space program, and Soviet cinema.
Russian State Archive of Phono Documents
Stalingrad
Виртуальные выставки Национального архива Республики Карелия (Online exhibitions of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia)
Orthodox Church
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, mainly covering local history.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Republic of Karelia
Neubrandenburg
Sweden
Peterozavodsk
Электронный читальный зал «Национальный архив» Республики Хакасия (Digital Reading Room "National Archive" of the Republic of Khakassia)
water management
state authorities and institutions
housing
transportation
This digital reading room provides access to digital finding aids for documents in the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia. However, you can only access the documents per se in person at the archive.
National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia
Khakas
Khakassia
Электронные издания Государственного архива современной истории Чувашской Республики (Digital Publications of the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic)
Timurite movement
Chuvash national movement
Digital projects and online exhibits of archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic. Some projects are based on abundant archival documents and old photographs.
State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvashia
Выставки Государственного архива Пермского края (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Perm Krai)
Armenian
Old Believer
Many well-organized, user-friendly online exhibitions and digital projects based on archival documents from the State Archive of Perm Krai, covering topics such as the 1917 Revolution, the Great Patriotic War, urban development, railway construction, local Old Believers, as well as less known themes such as Armenians in Perm Krai. These projects and exhibitions provide access to a lot of interesting documents.
State Archive of Perm Krai
Perm
Mari El
Mordovia
Sverdlovsk
Penza
Udmurt Republic
Ulyanovsk
Prikamye
Электронный читальный зал Пермского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Digital Reading Room of the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History)
guerilla warfare
festival
commemoration
printing
media
A very helpful digital portal that includes various digital projects, databases, and online exhibitions based on archival materials from the Perm region. Both thematic and chronological coverages of the projects in the digital reading room are quite extensive.
Perm State Archive of Socio-political History
Molotovskaya Oblast
Донские Архивы - Виртуальный архив Ростовской области (Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast)
local autonomy
coal
Nazi
environment
political leader
public health
postal service
Fascism
A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users can read document collections published by Rostov archives, as well as some referential materials online. The digital portal also has some online exhibitions and thematic document selections under the "Интернет-проекты" section.
Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast
Caucasus
Выставки Государственного архив административных органов Свердловской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast)
migration
Russian Harbin
social organization
A lot of well-organized and interesting online exhibitions on various topics, ranging from local history to foreign relations, such as Russians in Harbin. Most exhibitions consist of abundant interesting documents.
State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast
Harbin
Электронные выставки Государственного архива Свердловского области (Digital Exhibitions of the State Archive of Sverdlovsk Oblast)
industrial development
folk culture
historiography
genealogy
Plentiful interesting exhibitions based on abundant archival materials.
State Archive of Sverdlovsk Oblast
Вторая мировая война в архивных документах (комплекс оцифрованных архивных документов, кино- и фотоматериалов) (The Second World War in Archival Documents (Complex of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials))
A Russian federal project that presents thousands of degrees and orders of the State Defence Committee of the USSR with accompanying materials as well as other types of archival materials on the Second World War. Apart from the major exhibits of the project, on the page there are two links to other online resources related to the Second World War.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Виртуальные проекты Архивов Санкт-Петербурга (Digital Projects of the Archives of Saint-Petersburg)
social welfare
mass media
tourism
light industry
urban planning
ballet
Armenians
A lot of interesting and informative digital projects based on archival documents from seven major archives of Saint-Petersburg, covering plenty of well-known and less-known topics in Russian and Soviet history.
Archives of Saint-Petersburg
Leningrad
Saint-Petersburg
Tikhvin
Moscow
Vietnam
Crimea
Kronshtadt
Книга памяти блокадного Ленинграда (Memory Book of Blocked Leningrad)
Information portal on the Leningrad Blockade that unites three databases: "Blokada Leningrada. Evakuatsiia", which is a database on individuals evacuated from Leningrad during the Blockade; memory book "Blokada"; and the Russian State Information System "Pamiat' naroda". Links to the three databases can be found at the bottom of the web page.
Foundation for Support of National Projects, Russia
Газеты и журналы Российской Национальной Библиотеки (Newspapers and Journals of the Russian National Library)
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.
Russian National Library
Электронная библиотека ГПИБ (Digital Library of the State Public Historical Library of Russia)
Russian diaspora
futurism
library
Digital library of the State Public Historical Library of Russia, containing more than 20 thousand digital copies of various publications. Users can use different indicators and the search function to search for publications they want.
State Public Historical Library of Russia
Молодёжь России. Электронная библиотека (Youth of Russia. Digital Library.)
internationalism
Digital library of the Russian State Library for Young Adults. The "Книги XIX—XX вв." section, which contains more than 2200 downloadable e-books on youth problems, would be especially interesting for Soviet historians.
Russian State Library for Young Adults
Национальная электронная детская библиотека (НЭДБ) (National Digital Library for Children)
Bolshevik
Digital library of the Russian State Library for Children, containing extensive digitized pre- and post-1917 Russian and Soviet printed materials publications for/about children.
Russian State Library for Children