humor
Krokodil
culture
press
Digital archive of the satirical journal "Krokodil".
Link to the Resource
Digital archive
Russian
Russia
USSR
satire
printing
caricature
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares clippings from the Soviet satirical magazine, Krokodil.
VK group
Social media
Крым в истории России (Crimea in Russian History)
Crimea
political institution
local administration
local history
A digital project with photographs and documents about Crimea and its role as part of the Russian Empire/ USSR.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Digital project
Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Great Patriotic War
propaganda
Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
A. P. Anashkin et al.
Digital document collection
Altai Krai
Культурная Антропология и Этнография (Cultural anthropology and ethnography) VK Group
anthropology
ethnography
ethnicity
ethnic studies
scholarship
science
national culture
nationalities
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares academic information and resources about cultural anthropology and ethnography in Russia. The group often shares digitized copies of Soviet academic publications on the subject.
КЫРГЫЗСКИЙ ФОТОАРХИВ (Kyrgyz Photo Archive)
photography
art
everyday life
Kyrgyz
history
historiography
environment
celebrity
literature & arts
Digital project of the Union of Photo Journalists of Kyrgyzstan. On the website you can find thousands of well-annotated historical photographs of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz people. Besides, the website also has a book section and a map section, where you can download digital copies of old books and maps.
Union of Photojournalists of Kyrgyzstan
Digital collection
Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia
Turkestan
Қазақстандық Ұлттық Электронды Кітапхана (Kazakhstan National Electronic Library)
literature
linguistics
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.
Digital library
Kazakh
Kazakhstan
Ленин (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Lenin)
political leader
Lenin
A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Vladimir Lenin from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Ленин: Революционер, мыслитель, человек (Lenin: Revolutionary, thinker, human being)
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
memory
personal cult
Leninism
ideology
personal narrative
New Economic Policy
A website dedicated to Lenin and Leninism, where you can find digitized books and articles, memoirs, and studies on Lenin, many of which were published during the Soviet times. You can also download the digitized full collection of Lenin's works on this website.
leninism.su
women
youth
Komsomol
partisan
guerilla warfare
veteran
public health
A project of the State Archive of Tver Oblast that collects personal narratives from archival materials on the Great Patriotic War.
Archives of Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast
Kalinin Oblast
Donbas
Odessa
film
cinema
A YouTube playlist of Soviet films and TV series produced by Lenfilm. One can find many Soviet film and TV classics here, such as the TV series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson".
Lenfilm
YouTube channel
emigration
emigre
theater
Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
Fedor Soumkine
Europe
global
Литература [махно.ru] (Literature [makhno.ru])
Nestor Makhno
Green Army
peasantry
Digital collection of Nestor Makhn's works, including his memoirs, articles, and studies on him.
Sergei Shvedov et al.
Ukraine
intellectual
Digital project on the literary life of Tomsk Oblast. It provides information about Tomsk writers and relevant bibliophiles.
Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
Tomsk Oblast
Личные фонды видных деятелей Советской эпохи (Personal Fonds of Prominent Figures of the Soviet Period)
Stalin
Digitized documents from the personal fond of Stalin from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Марксистская литература на языках народов СССР (Marxist literature in the languages of peoples of the USSR) VK Group
Marxism
language
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet Marxist literature in different languages of Soviet nationalities.
Ukrainian
Kalmyk
Chuvash
Moldovan
Belarusian
Uzbek
Tatar
Armenian
Udmurt
Ossetian
Gypsy
Nanai
Koryak
Altaic
Yakut
Komi
Evenk
Материалы по истории Академгородка (Materials on the History of the Academy-Town)
technology
Academy of Sciences
Akademgorodok
Historical materials on the history of Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk.
State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Novosibirsk
Материалы русской истории (Materials on Russian History )
A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Мгновения объективной истории России и Венгрии (Moments of Objective History of Russia and Hungary)
architecture
Hungary
diplomacy
Online exhibition of photographs taken by 20th-century Russian and Hungarian photographers that present the everyday life and urban landscapes of the two countries and their bilateral relations.
Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
Online exhibition
Мемориальный музей космонавтики (Memorial Museum of Astronautics)
space race
astronautics
aviation
Digital exhibits from the Memorial Museum of Astronautics.
The Moscow Department of Culture
military
war
Revolution
Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
Soviet-Finnish War (1918-1920)
Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
Spanish Russian Civil War
Polish campaign (1939)
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1928) (1939)
Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)
Bessarabian campaign
Iranian campaign (1941)
Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
Vietnam War
Soviet-Afghan War
Yugoslav War
Bukovina campaign
World War Ⅰ
Russian-Japanese War
Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
Oleg Rubetskii
Мемуары, дневники, автобиографии (Twirpx) (Memoirs, Diaries, and Autobiographies (Twirpx))
memoir
diary
crime
A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
Forum by Russian and former Soviet country academic school community
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
society
general
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
МІЖАРХІВНИЙ ПОШУКОВИЙ ПОРТАЛ (INTERARCHIVE SEARCH PORTAL)
political repression
Great Terror
Ukrainian Revolution
diaspora
religion
World War Ⅱ
law
legal source
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.
State Archive Service of Ukraine
Eastern Europe
fashion
light industry
consumption
Online document exhibition dedicated to the fashion industry in the USSR.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Gulag
NKVD
dekulakization
KGB
secret police
deportation
labor
Oral history project of the Museum of Gulag history that recollects memories of the people who were affected by Soviet political repressions. Interviewees include the repressed themselves, their children, former NKVD members, Children of NKVD members, the dekulakized, deportees, and labor armyists.
The Museum of Gulag history
Siberia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Baltics
Молодёжь России. Электронная библиотека (Youth of Russia. Digital Library.)
education
internationalism
pioneer organization
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
Монографии и сборники Государственного архива Рязанской области (Monographs and Collections of the State Archive of Ryazan Oblast)
Leningrad Blockade
This page has several downloadable document collections dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
State Archive of Ryazan Oblast
Ryazan Oblast
Leningrad
Москва и Москвичи (Moscow and Muscovites)
Moscow
urban history
oral history
Online exhibition of audio recordings about the city of Moscow, its streets and people, from Imperial Russia through the Soviet times.
Russian State Archive of Phono Documents
Московская государственная картинная галерея Василия Нестеренко (Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery )
Vasilii Nesterenko
Digital exhibits from the Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery .
Московский музей современного искусства (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
sculpture
Digital exhibits from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Мост через Керченский пролив (The Bridge over Kerch Strait)
Kerch Strait
infrastructure
A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
Мосфильм - для детей (Mosfilm for Children) YouTube Channel
children
comedy
Children's films produced by Mosfilm available on YouTube.
Mosfilm
fairy tale
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet textbooks, children's books, and other types of Soviet educational materials.
Zelenograd
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
Музей инстории ГУЛАГа (Museum of Gulag History)
political police
labor camp
prisoners
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
leisure
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
Музей-заповедник Царицыно (Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno)
museum
Tsaritsyno
ecology
parks and gardens
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
Музей-усадьба "Кусково" ("Kuskovo" Museum)
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Музейно-выставочное объединение "Манеж" (Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh")
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Музейные коллекции Музея-заповедника "Сталинградская битва" (Museum Collections of the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad")
Battle of Stalingrad
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
The Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad"
Мультики студии Союзмультфильм (Cartoon Studio. Soiuzmul'tfil'm) YouTube Channel
cartoon
folklore
A YouTube channel presenting Soviet and contemporary Russian cartoons and children's films.
Мультимедия Арт Музей, Москва (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow)
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Мультфильмы Чехословакии и Польши (Czechoslovak and Polish Cartoons)
animation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares cartoons produced in communist Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other Eastern European countries. Videos shared here are mostly dubbed in Russian.
Polish
Czech
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Мы из Биробиджана (фотографии 1930-х гг.) (We Are from Birobidzhan (photographs of the 1930s))
Birobidzhan
Jewish
Photographs of Birobidzhan in the 1930s.
The Russian Ethnographic Museum
Накануне и после Мюнхена. Архивные документы рассказывают. К 80-летию 'Мюнхенского сговора' (On the Eve of and After Munich: the 80th Anniversary of the Munich Agreement )
Munich Agreement
interwar period
Nazi Germany
Soviet-Nazi relations
international relations
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the Munich Agreement that played a large role in the politics of appeasement.
Germany