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)
Russian-Japanese War
World War Ⅱ
World War Ⅰ
Great Patriotic War
Russian Civil War
Soviet-Afghan War
Chechen War
personal narrative
Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the major wars Russia/the USSR took part in in the 20th century.
State Archive of Bryansk Oblast
Link to the Resource
Digital document collection
Russian
Bryansk Oblast
Russia
Hungary
Austria
Kazakhstan
Afghanistan
Turkmenistan
Balkans
Belarus
Belgium
Germany
Bulgaria
Poland
Vladikavkaz
Voronezh
Netherlands
Grodno
Chechnya
Dagestan
Iran
Irkutsk
Spain
Italy
Caucasus
Kazan
Kalinin
Kaluga
Ukraine
Kyiv
China
Crimea
Kuban
Kursk
Leningrad
Moscow
Lviv
Lithuania
Latvia
Minsk
Novosibirsk
Odessa
Omsk
Orel
Pskov
Prussia
Riga
Rostov Oblast
Samara
Sakhalin
Sverdlovsk
Sevastopol
Siberia
Smolensk
Stalingrad
Tambov
Tula
Turkey
Khabarovsk
Harbin
Kharkiv
Kherson
Black Sea
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
Yugoslavia
Japan
Наследие Марины Цветаевой [письма] (The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva [Letters])
Marina Tsvetaeva
Silver Age poets
poetry
literature
culture
intellectual
literature & arts
Archive of personal correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva.
The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva
Digital archive
USSR
Наследие народного писателя Карелии Яакко Ругоева (Legacy of the People's Writer of Karelia Jaakko Rugojev)
Jaakko Rugojev
Documents and photographs related to Jaakko Rugojev, a Soviet Karelian writer.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Digital project
Finnish
Republic of Karelia
Научная педагогическая электронная библиотека - Библиотека имени К. Д. Ушинского (Scientific Pedagogical Electronic Library - K.D. Ushinskii Library)
education
pedagogy
Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
psychology
educational institutions
Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
K. D. Ushinskii Library
Digital library
Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
media
science
popular science
film
cinema
astronautics
aviation
military
documentary
history
art
political leader
medicine
health
travel
nature
industry
politics
scholarship
sport
transportation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
VK group
Social media
global
Научно-атеистические книги (и др.) (Scientific-atheistic books and others) VK Group
propaganda
ideology
Cold War
foreign policy
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).
Научно-справочный аппарат объединенного государственного архива Оренбургской области (Scientific-referencial Apparatus of the Unified State Archive of Orenburg Oblast)
administrative-territorial division
demographics
political institution
evacuation
printing
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.
Unified State Archive of Orenburg Oblast
Online database
Digital collection
Orenburg Oblast
Научное наследие М.М. Герасимова (Academic Legacy of M.M. Gerasimov)
anthropology
archaeology
sculpture
Mikhail Gerasimov
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.
Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"
Uzbekistan
Central Asia
Национальная цифровая киноколлекция Республики Казахстана (National Digital Film Collection of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
commercial
television
Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
Kazakh Scientific-Research Institute of Culture
English
Национальная электронная библиотека Кыргызстана (National Digital Library of Kyrgyzstan)
children
geography
national culture
A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
Republican Library for Children and Youth named after K. Baialinov
?-post-1991
Kyrgyz
Kyrgyzstan
Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Адыгея (National Digital Library of the Republic of Adygea)
nationalities
folklore
folk culture
Revolution
kolkhoz
agriculture
local administration
language
linguistics
economy
collectivization
local study
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.
National Library of the Republic of Adygea
Adygea Republic
Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Башкортостан (National Digital Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan)
local history
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period.
National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Bashkir
Bashkiria
Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Коми (National Electronic Library of the Republic of Komi)
Komi Republic
National Library of the Republic of Komi
Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Татарстан (National Digital Library of the Republic of Tatarstan)
national autonomy
ethnography
press
Tatar
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.
Ministry of Digital Development of State Administration, Information Technologies, and Communication of the Republic of Tatarstan
Tatarstan
Национальная электронная библиотека Удмуртской Республики (National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic)
Udmurtia
Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
National Library of the Udmurt Republic
Udmurt
Udmurt Republic
Национальная электронная библиотека Чеченской Республики (National Digital Library of the Chechen Republic)
archive
public health
political science
religion
social sciences
mass media
philosophy
chemistry
economics
natural science
Digital library of the National Library of the Chechen Republic, containing books and periodicals published locally during the Soviet times.
National Library of the Chechen Republic
Chechen
Национальная электронная детская библиотека (НЭДБ) (National Digital Library for Children)
internationalism
theater
architecture
foreign relations
diplomacy
Bolshevik
pioneer organization
humanities
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
Національний банк даних жертв політичних репресій радянської доби в Україні (National Data Bank of the Victims of Soviet-era Political Repressions in Ukraine)
political repression
Great Terror
deportation
Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
Ukrainian
everyday life
memory
Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
Nuremberg Trials
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
1946
Нюрнбергский процесс в документах российских архивов (The Nuremberg Trials in the Documents of Russian Archives)
A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Iuridicheskaia literatura
USA
France
О творчестве Александра Солженицына (About the Works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
Cultural-educational Internet Portal "Aleksandr Isaievich Solzhenitsyn"
Leningrad Blockade
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Caucasus
Soviet-Japanese War
Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
Russian Military-Historical Society
Moldova
Norway
Romania
Baltics
Manchuria
Общественная инициатива “Кобыляки. Расстреляны в Орше” (Social Initiative "Kobylyaki. Shot in Orsha")
oral history
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.
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
book
music
technology
police
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.
Azerbaijan
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books) Telegram Channel
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.
Telegram channel
Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
railroad
St. Petersburg
urban history
Kronstadt Rebellion
Karelia
Vyborg
international relations
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
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.
Aleksei Shvarev
Finland
Округ. Огненные годы (Okrug. Flaming years.)
Online document collection on the role of Komi-Permyak Okrug in the Great Patriotic War.
State Archive of Komi-Permyak Okrug
Komi-Permyak
Онлайн-кинотеатр "Мосфильма" (Online cinema "Mosfilm")
Mosfilm
comedy
Online catalog and player of Soviet and Russian films produced by Mosfilm.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.
Kollektsionerus
Kirov Oblast
Особые папки Архива Президента Республики Казахстан (Special Folders of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
law
legal source
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.
Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
soldiers
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.
Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
Отечественная периодика в фонде президентской библиотеки (Domestic Periodicals in the Fonds of the Presidential Library)
legislation
Academy of Sciences
justice
Red Army
leisure
Komsomol
Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Открытый архив (Open Archive. Three-volume Reference Book on Published Historical Documents)
Three-volume bibliography of historical documents published in Russia/the USSR over the 20th century, published by Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishers (ROSSPEN).
I.A. Kondakova
Link to Volume 1
Link to Volume 2
Link to Volume 3
Bibliography
arms race
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marshall Malinovskii
Politburo
Surrender of Japan
Churchill
Online document exhibitions of the Russian Historical Society.
Russian Historical Society
Офицеры Первой мировой--генералы Великой Отечественной (The Officers of the First World War--the Generals of the Great Patriotic War)
World War I
Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
Оцифровані документи - Державний архів Херсонської області (Digitized Documents of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast)
security service
KGB
A significant number of digitized documents from the fonds of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast.
State Archive of Kherson Oblast
pre-1917-?
Kherson Oblast
Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Digitized Opisi and Cases Online - State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
Party organization
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.
State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
Оцифровані справи - Державний архів Рівненської Області (Digitized Cases of the State Archive of Rivne Oblast)
OUN
UPA
ethnic conflict
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.
State Archive of Rivne Oblast
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)
monument
Holodomor
famine
Gulag
Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Sakharov Center
Armenia
Georgia
Памятные даты российской экономики (Important Dates in the History of the Russian Economy )
Commissariat of Internal and Foreign Trade
Commissariat of Water Transport
Committee of Forestry
Surveys
Cartography
Commissariat of Rubber Production
Geology
Chemistry
Metallurgy
Ministry of Auto and Tractor Production
State Scientific-Economic Counsel
Engineering
Counsel for Economic Mutual Aid
invention
environment
Document exhibition on significant milestones in Soviet and Russian economic life.
Russian State Archive of Economy
Память народа. 1941-1945 (People's Memory. 1941-1945)
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.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Europe
Пензенская электронная библиотека (Penza Digital Library)
October Revolution
Russian Orthodox Church
peasantry
social welfare
Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
Penza Oblast Library
Penza Oblast
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.)
academics
Digital repository of photographs documenting the development of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as prominent scholars from Novosibirsk.
Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Novosibirsk Oblast
Первоисточники (Primary Documents) on Militera
war
Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
Spanish Russian Civil War
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1938) (1939)
Polish campaign (1939)
Bukovina campaign
Bessarabian campaign
entry of troops into the Baltic states (1940)
Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
Allied fight against Japan (1941-1945)
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
Oleg Rubetskii
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
Периодические издания национальной библиотеки Ямало-ненецкого автономного округа (Periodicals of the National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
society
Digitized editions of newspapers and journals of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, including several old publications, such as "Kracnyi sever" and "Vremia Iamala".
National Library of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Пермская электронная библиотека (Perm Digital Library)
cosmos
climate
ecology
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.
Perm Krai Gorky Universal Library
Permyak
Perm Krai