https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1606
title: Написано Войной... Письма, дневники, воспоминания участников войн и военных конфликтов ХХ века. (Written by the War... Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs of the Combatants of Wars and Military Conflicts of the 20th Century)
subject: Russian-Japanese War
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Chechen War
subject: personal narrative
description: Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the major wars Russia/the USSR took part in in the 20th century.
creator: State Archive of Bryansk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1905-2009
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Bryansk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Austria
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Afghanistan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Balkans
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Belgium
coverage: Germany
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Poland
coverage: UK
coverage: Vladikavkaz
coverage: Voronezh
coverage: Netherlands
coverage: Grodno
coverage: Chechnya
coverage: Dagestan
coverage: Iran
coverage: Irkutsk
coverage: Spain
coverage: Italy
coverage: Caucasus
coverage: Kazan
coverage: Kalinin
coverage: Kaluga
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Kyiv
coverage: China
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Kuban
coverage: Kursk
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Moscow
coverage: Lviv
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Minsk
coverage: Novosibirsk
coverage: Odessa
coverage: Omsk
coverage: Orel
coverage: Pskov
coverage: Prussia
coverage: Riga
coverage: Rostov Oblast
coverage: Samara
coverage: Sakhalin
coverage: Sverdlovsk
coverage: Sevastopol
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Smolensk
coverage: Stalingrad
coverage: Tambov
coverage: Tula
coverage: Turkey
coverage: Khabarovsk
coverage: Harbin
coverage: Kharkiv
coverage: Kherson
coverage: Black Sea
coverage: Czechoslovakia

Наследие Марины Цветаевой [письма] (The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva [Letters])
subject: Marina Tsvetaeva
subject: Silver Age poets
subject: poetry
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: intellectual
subject: literature & arts
description: Archive of personal correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva.
creator: The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1905-1941
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Наследие народного писателя Карелии Яакко Ругоева (Legacy of the People's Writer of Karelia Jaakko Rugojev)
subject: Jaakko Rugojev
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: Documents and photographs related to Jaakko Rugojev, a Soviet Karelian writer.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1923-1988
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: Finnish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Russia

Научная педагогическая электронная библиотека - Библиотека имени К. Д. Ушинского (Scientific Pedagogical Electronic Library - K.D. Ushinskii Library)
subject: education
subject: pedagogy
subject: Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
subject: psychology
subject: educational institutions
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
creator: K. D. Ushinskii Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
subject: education
subject: media
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: popular science
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: astronautics
subject: aviation
subject: military
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: documentary
subject: history
subject: art
subject: political leader
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: travel
subject: nature
subject: industry
subject: politics
subject: scholarship
subject: sport
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

Научно-атеистические книги (и др.) (Scientific-atheistic books and others) VK Group
subject: propaganda
subject: ideology
subject: science
subject: psychology
subject: Cold War
subject: foreign policy
subject: industry
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous Soviet academic, popular science, as well as propagandistic books (not always scientific, as the group's name alleges, but atheistic).
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Научно-справочный аппарат объединенного государственного архива Оренбургской области (Scientific-referencial Apparatus of the Unified State Archive of Orenburg Oblast)
subject: administrative-territorial division
subject: demographics
subject: political institution
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: evacuation
subject: political leader
subject: printing
description: A set of digital tools provided by the United State Archive of Orenburg Oblast, including online guides to the archive's collections and finding aids, and a few online databases. The databases include a database on individuals evacuated to the Chkalov Oblast during the Great Patriotic War, a database on regional political leaders during the Soviet era, and referential materials on administrative-territorial delimitations of the region in different periods.
creator: Unified State Archive of Orenburg Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1992
format: Online database
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Orenburg Oblast
coverage: Russia

Научное наследие М.М. Герасимова (Academic Legacy of M.M. Gerasimov)
subject: intellectual
subject: science
subject: anthropology
subject: archaeology
subject: sculpture
subject: Mikhail Gerasimov
subject: history
description: Digital project dedicated to Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. On the website, you can download the digital copies of his major works and browse photos, videos, and documents about the scholar.
creator: Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1933-1970
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Irkutsk

Национальная цифровая киноколлекция Республики Казахстана (National Digital Film Collection of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
subject: propaganda
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: literature
subject: political leader
subject: commercial
subject: television
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
creator: Kazakh Scientific-Research Institute of Culture
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-2008
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Национальная электронная библиотека Кыргызстана (National Digital Library of Kyrgyzstan)
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: children
subject: scholarship
subject: archaeology
subject: history
subject: geography
subject: literature
subject: national culture
subject: literature & arts
description: A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
creator: Republican Library for Children and Youth named after K. Baialinov
source: Link to the Resource
date: ?-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Kyrgyz
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Central Asia

Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Адыгея (National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea)
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: Revolution
subject: kolkhoz
subject: agriculture
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
subject: language
subject: linguistics
subject: archaeology
subject: economy
subject: collectivization
subject: local study
description: 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.
creator: National Library of the Republic of Adygea
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Adygea Republic
coverage: Russia
coverage: Caucasus
coverage: Kuban

Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Башкортостан (National Digital Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan)
subject: literature
subject: local history
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: intellectual
subject: nationalities
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period.
creator: National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Bashkir
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Bashkiria
coverage: Russia

Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Коми (National Electronic Library of the Republic of Komi)
subject: Komi Republic
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
creator: National Library of the Republic of Komi
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Komi Republic

Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Татарстан (National Digital Library of the Republic of Tatarstan)
subject: nationalities
subject: national autonomy
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: science
subject: literature
subject: ethnography
subject: press
subject: local study
subject: Tatar
subject: literature & arts
description: National digital library of Tatarstan, containing more than 11,000 digital copies of various publications, including a great number of Soviet-era books and periodicals.
creator: Ministry of Digital Development of State Administration, Information Technologies, and Communication of the Republic of Tatarstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Tatar
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tatarstan
coverage: Russia

Национальная электронная библиотека Удмуртской Республики (National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic)
subject: nationalities
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: culture
subject: politics
subject: national culture
subject: history
subject: local study
subject: language
subject: ethnography
subject: folklore
subject: Udmurtia
description: Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
creator: National Library of the Udmurt Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Udmurt
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Udmurt Republic

Национальная электронная библиотека Чеченской Республики (National Digital Library of the Chechen Republic)
subject: archaeology
subject: archive
subject: history
subject: art
subject: local history
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: medicine
subject: public health
subject: political science
subject: psychology
subject: religion
subject: agriculture
subject: social sciences
subject: mass media
subject: philosophy
subject: chemistry
subject: economics
subject: ethnography
subject: nationalities
subject: linguistics
subject: natural science
subject: sport
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the National Library of the Chechen Republic, containing books and periodicals published locally during the Soviet times.
creator: National Library of the Chechen Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Chechen
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Caucasus
coverage: Chechnya

Национальная электронная детская библиотека (НЭДБ) (National Digital Library for Children)
subject: children
subject: internationalism
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: cinema
subject: architecture
subject: foreign relations
subject: diplomacy
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: science
subject: Bolshevik
subject: pioneer organization
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: propaganda
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Russian State Library for Children
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1728-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

Національний банк даних жертв політичних репресій радянської доби в Україні (National Data Bank of the Victims of Soviet-era Political Repressions in Ukraine)
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: deportation
description: Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-1991
format: Online database
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

ниоткуда (From Nowhere)
subject: everyday life
subject: film
subject: diplomacy
subject: art
subject: memory
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1960-1991
format: Digital project
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Нюрнбергский процесс (Nuremberg Trials)
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Germany
description: Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1946
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany

Нюрнбергский процесс в документах российских архивов (The Nuremberg Trials in the Documents of Russian Archives)
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Germany
description: A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1946
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany

Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Great Patriotic War
description: Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
creator: Iuridicheskaia literatura
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1946
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: USSR
coverage: UK
coverage: USA
coverage: France

О творчестве Александра Солженицына (About the Works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
subject: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
creator: Cultural-educational Internet Portal "Aleksandr Isaievich Solzhenitsyn"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-2008
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Образы войны (Images of War)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: Battle of Stalingrad
subject: Battle of Kursk
subject: Battle of Caucasus
subject: Soviet-Japanese War
description: Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Russian Military-Historical Society
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital project
language: /
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Austria
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Czechoslovakia
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Norway
coverage: Romania
coverage: Poland
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Yugoslavia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: China

Общественная инициатива “Кобыляки. Расстреляны в Орше” (Social Initiative "Kobylyaki. Shot in Orsha")
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: A civil digital project initiated by the descendants of the victims of Soviet political repressions in Orsha, Belarus. The project has collected documents related to the victims and conducted oral history interviews with the descendants or relatives of the victims. You can find the transcriptions of the interviews, as well as relevant photos and documents on the website.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Belarus

Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
subject: culture
subject: book
subject: printing
subject: music
subject: science
subject: politics
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: folklore
subject: propaganda
subject: scholarship
subject: technology
subject: police
subject: political institution
subject: religion
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital project that provides open access to about 1000 digitized Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books) Telegram Channel
subject: culture
subject: book
subject: printing
subject: music
subject: science
subject: politics
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: folklore
subject: propaganda
subject: scholarship
subject: technology
subject: police
subject: political institution
subject: religion
subject: literature & arts
description: The Telegram channel of a digital project of the same name that shares digitized imperial Russian and Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
subject: railroad
subject: St. Petersburg
subject: urban history
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: military
subject: Karelia
subject: Vyborg
subject: international relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Winter War
subject: local history
subject: personal narrative
subject: transportation
subject: Soviet-Finnish relations
description: Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
creator: Aleksei Shvarev
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Finland
coverage: Germany

Округ. Огненные годы (Okrug. Flaming years.)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: evacuation
subject: everyday life
description: Online document collection on the role of Komi-Permyak Okrug in the Great Patriotic War.
creator: State Archive of Komi-Permyak Okrug
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Komi-Permyak
coverage: Russia

Онлайн-кинотеатр "Мосфильма" (Online cinema "Mosfilm")
subject: film
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Mosfilm
subject: comedy
subject: cinema
subject: literature & arts
description: Online catalog and player of Soviet and Russian films produced by Mosfilm.
creator: Mosfilm
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Онлайн-кинотеатр "Мосфильма" (Online cinema "Mosfilm")
subject: film
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Mosfilm
subject: comedy
subject: cinema
creator: Mosfilm
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-post-1991
type: English-Language Primary Source

Опаринская искра (Oparinskaia iskra)
subject: everyday life
subject: culture
subject: politics
subject: local administration
subject: propaganda
description: Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.
creator: Kollektsionerus
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1953
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Kirov Oblast

Особые папки Архива Президента Республики Казахстан (Special Folders of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
subject: law
subject: history
subject: nationalities
subject: legal source
description: Selections of documents from the "Special files (Особые папки)" of the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan. Currently, only two documents are available online in this section, but more documents may be published online in the future.
creator: Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1934-1951
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: soldiers
subject: memory
subject: personal narrative
description: Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
creator: Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Отечественная периодика в фонде президентской библиотеки (Domestic Periodicals in the Fonds of the Presidential Library)
subject: press
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: politics
subject: political institution
subject: local administration
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: agriculture
subject: Academy of Sciences
subject: justice
subject: Red Army
subject: literature
subject: leisure
subject: children
subject: pioneer organization
subject: Komsomol
subject: everyday life
subject: local study
subject: geography
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: railroad
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
creator: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Открытый архив (Open Archive. Three-volume Reference Book on Published Historical Documents)
subject: press
description: Three-volume bibliography of historical documents published in Russia/the USSR over the 20th century, published by Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishers (ROSSPEN).
creator: I.A. Kondakova
source: Link to Volume 1
source: Link to Volume 2
source: Link to Volume 3
date: 1900-2000
format: Bibliography
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Открытый архив (Open Archive)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: arms race
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
subject: Marshall Malinovskii
subject: Politburo
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Surrender of Japan
subject: Churchill
description: Online document exhibitions of the Russian Historical Society.
creator: Russian Historical Society
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Japan
coverage: France
coverage: Germany

Офицеры Первой мировой--генералы Великой Отечественной (The Officers of the First World War--the Generals of the Great Patriotic War)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War I
subject: military
description: Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-1945
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Оцифровані документи - Державний архів Херсонської області (Digitized Documents of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast)
subject: religion
subject: security service
subject: KGB
subject: local administration
subject: everyday life
description: A significant number of digitized documents from the fonds of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast.
creator: State Archive of Kherson Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-?
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Kherson Oblast

Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Digitized Opisi and Cases Online - State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
subject: Party organization
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
description: Digitized finding aids and some documents of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast. The digital archive contains a lot of documents, but they are not organized in a clear way. Users may read the finding aids first, and then check out digitized "SPRAVI" to access original documents.
creator: State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Chernihiv Oblast

Оцифровані справи - Державний архів Рівненської Області (Digitized Cases of the State Archive of Rivne Oblast)
subject: OUN
subject: UPA
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: ethnic conflict
subject: political institution
subject: local administration
subject: everyday life
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Rivne Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1840-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Rivne Oblast

Памятники жертвам политических репрессий, установленные на территории бывшего СССР (Monuments for the Victims of Political Repressions on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union)
subject: political repression
subject: monument
subject: Holodomor
subject: famine
subject: Great Terror
subject: Gulag
description: Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
creator: Sakharov Center
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Uzbekistan

Памятные даты российской экономики (Important Dates in the History of the Russian Economy )
subject: economy
subject: Commissariat of Internal and Foreign Trade
subject: Commissariat of Water Transport
subject: Committee of Forestry
subject: Surveys
subject: Cartography
subject: Commissariat of Rubber Production
subject: Geology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Metallurgy
subject: Ministry of Auto and Tractor Production
subject: State Scientific-Economic Counsel
subject: Engineering
subject: Counsel for Economic Mutual Aid
subject: aviation
subject: invention
subject: environment
subject: railroad
description: Document exhibition on significant milestones in Soviet and Russian economic life.
creator: Russian State Archive of Economy
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Память народа. 1941-1945 (People's Memory. 1941-1945)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: military
description: This site is a database about servicemen/servicewomen, military engagements, and the military during the Great Patriotic War. It contains numerous documents on individuals and events.
creator: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe

Пензенская электронная библиотека (Penza Digital Library)
subject: agriculture
subject: art
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: economy
subject: October Revolution
subject: Russian Orthodox Church
subject: history
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: peasantry
subject: kolkhoz
subject: literature
subject: social welfare
subject: poetry
subject: political institution
subject: Party organization
subject: industry
subject: Red Army
subject: music
subject: law
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: sport
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
creator: Penza Oblast Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Penza Oblast
coverage: Russia

Первичные фотоматериалы Сибирского отделения Российской Академии наук: СО РАН с 1957 года (Primary Photo Materials of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences: SO RAN Since 1957.)
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: academics
subject: Academy of Sciences
subject: scholarship
description: Digital repository of photographs documenting the development of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as prominent scholars from Novosibirsk.
creator: Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1957-2022
format: Digital project
language: /
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Первоисточники (Primary Documents) on Militera
subject: military
subject: war
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
subject: Spanish Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Japanese conflict (1938) (1939)
subject: Polish campaign (1939)
subject: Bukovina campaign
subject: Bessarabian campaign
subject: entry of troops into the Baltic states (1940)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
subject: Allied fight against Japan (1941-1945)
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
subject: Russian-Japanese War
description: Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
creator: Oleg Rubetskii
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe

Периодические издания и краеведческие материалы Ленинградской области (Periodical Publications and Local Study Materials of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: local study
subject: local administration
subject: local history
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: political institution
subject: culture
subject: Party organization
description: Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
creator: Leningrad Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1944-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

Периодические издания национальной библиотеки Ямало-ненецкого автономного округа (Periodicals of the National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
subject: nationalities
subject: Siberia
subject: society
description: Digitized editions of newspapers and journals of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, including several old publications, such as "Kracnyi sever" and "Vremia Iamala".
creator: National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1933-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
coverage: Russia

Пермская электронная библиотека (Perm Digital Library)
subject: travel
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: justice
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: language
subject: cosmos
subject: urban history
subject: local administration
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: climate
subject: environment
subject: ecology
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the Perm State Library of Maksim Gorky, containing a lot of interesting publications from the Russian imperial times through the contemporary era. Apart from extensive publications in Russian, the digital library also provides access to publications in the Komi-Permyak language.
creator: Perm Krai Gorky Universal Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1701-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Permyak
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Perm Krai
coverage: Russia
coverage: global