Рок - группы СССР (Rock groups of the USSR)
music
late socialism
culture
youth
art
rock music
literature & arts
A website dedicated to Soviet rock music, where you can search Soviet rock bands, listen to their music, and watch old video recordings.
Link to the Resource
Digital project
Digital collection
Russian
USSR
Russia
Российская Национальная электронная библиотека (National Electronic Library of Russia)
collectivization
dekulakization
Crimea
railroad
crime
justice
Gulag
prison
punishment
general
poetry
Andrei Belyi
Pitirim Sorokin
emigration
Bulat Okudzhava
Boris Pasternak
Konstantin Bal'mont
Arctic
science
technology
leisure
education
literacy
medicine
epidemics
Great Patriotic War
Leningrad Blockade
nutrition
military
medics
Revolution
foreign policy
World War I
Russian Civil War
health
Vladimir Mayakovaky
chess
Congress of Soviets
Marxim Gorky
natural resource
transportation
National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Digital library
Россия и марксизм в ХХ веке (Russia and Marxism in the XX Century)
Leon Trotsky
Communism
Bolshevism
Fourth International
Lev Kamenev
Grigory Zinoviev
opposition
personal narrative
Politburo
Stalin
Lenin
Digital collection of documents on Russian Marxists, Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and Soviet power. Here you can find transcripts of Politburo meetings between 1925-1927, a time that saw shifting power relations between Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev; a 1922 article on the creation of the Red Army, published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party; and the full text of an anonymous manuscript detailing the experiences of a young member of the political opposition during the mid-1920s that was discovered in the Hoover Archives.
Iskra-Research
Рукописи онлайн (Manuscripts Online - Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature, RAS)
literature
intellectual
Aleksandr Blok
Innokentii Annenskii
Marina Tsvetaeva
Fedor Sologub
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Рукописные тетради Марины Цветаевой (Handwritten Notebooks of Marina Tsvetaeva)
Silver Age poets
Digital collection of manuscripts of Marina Tsvetaeva.
House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva
Online exhibition
Русский Север - электронная краеведческая библиотека (Russian North - Digital Local Study Library)
printing
press
agriculture
World War Ⅰ
political institution
local administration
nature
ecology
environment
nationalities
Nenets
religion
public health
propaganda
administrative-territorial division
A very well-designed digital library of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Dobroliubov Scientific Library, containing extensive books, periodicals, documents, maps, and other types of historical materials related to the Arkhangelsk region. Its journal and newspaper section provides open access to many issues of Soviet-era periodicals in the region.
Arkhangelsk Oblast Dobroliubov Scientific Library
Arkhangelsk Oblast
С. А. Есенин [письма] (S. A. Yesenin [Letters])
Sergei Yesenin
Digital archive of Sergei Yesenin's personal correspondence.
www.esenin.ru
Самара в открытках и фотографиях (Samara in postcards and photographs)
Samara
urban history
local history
A site with postcards and photographs from old Samara, including from the early Soviet period.
Georgii Vladimirovich Bichurov
Сборник "100 документов и 100 фотографий по истории Бурятии из фондов Государственного архива Республики Бурятия" (Document Collection "100 Documents and 100 Photographs on the History of Buryatia from the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia")
nation-building
national delimitation
economy
socialist construction
sport
Document collection that contains documents and photographs related to the establishment and development of the Buryat ASSR, and post-war socialist construction in the republic.
State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia
Digital document collection
Buryat
Buryatia
Сборник архивных документов по истории Эгитуйского дацана (Document Collection on the History of Egituyskiy Datsan)
Egituyskiy Datsan
Tibetan Buddhism
Document collection on the history of Egituyskiy Datsan, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Buryatia, from the Russian imperial till the early Soviet periods.
Mongolian
Сборник документов "Становление Костромской области" (Document Collection: The Founding of Kostroma Oblast)
infrastructure
urban development
State Archive of Contemporary History of Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast
Сборник документов «Без срока давности. Брянская область» (Document Collection: Never to Forget. Bryansk Oblast)
Fascism
One of a series of document collections on German atrocities against Soviet civilians during the Second World War.
State Archive of Bryansk Oblast
Austria
Bryansk Oblast
Belarus
Germany
Kaluga Oblast
Kuban
Latvia
Leningrad
Lithuania
Ukraine
Smolensk
Oryol Oblast
Poland
Сборники документов Архива Президента Республики Казахстан (Document Collections of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
deportation
political repression
Finns
Polish
German
Kurds
Turks
Great Terror
labor
Chechen
Ingush
Greek
Bulgarians
Crimean Tatar
Armenians
Korean
Three downloadable document collections on Soviet-era deportations to Kazakhstan from 1930 to 1945, published by the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More digital publications may be added to this section in the future.
Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Central Asia
Azerbaijan
Adjarian ASSR
Altai
Armenia
Volga German ASSR
Kalmykia
Kyrgyzstan
Karaganda
Karelo-Finnish SSR
Komi Republic
Krasnoyarsk
Moscow
Novosibirsk
Uzbekistan
Caucasus
North Caucasus
Сборники документов государственного архива в городе Ирбите (Published Collections of the State Archive of the City of Irbit)
Irbit
periodicals
Russian Revolution
Grigorii Richkalov
Online document collections published by the State Archive in Irbit.
State Archive of the City of Irbit
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Сборники документов Государственного архива Восточно-Казахстанской области (Document Collections of the State Archive of East Kazakhstan Oblast)
Nikolai Konshin
informburo
veteran
political leader
migration
evacuation
Many downloadable document collections published by the State Archive of Eastern-Kazakhstan Oblast on various interesting topics, such as Kazakh migration to China in the 1920s and the collectivization of agriculture in the region.
State Archive of East Kazakhstan Oblast
Eastern Kazakhstan
China
Xinjiang
Сборники документов и материалов государственного архива Томской области (Document and Material Collections of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast)
Tomsk
home front
Purges
Nazino Tragedy
Siberia
A number of digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.
State Archive of Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
СВАГ и немецкие органы самоуправления, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration of Germany and German Organs of Self-Government, 1945-1949)
Soviet Military Administration of Germany
occupation of Germany
German self-government
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection.
State Archive of the Russian Federation
East Germany
СВАГ и религиозные конфессии Советской зоны оккупации Германии, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration in Germany and Religious Confessions of the Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949)
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection
Североамериканские финны в Советской Карелии в 1920‑1930‑е гг. (Northern American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1930s)
Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Finnish
Republic of Karelia
Sergei Dovlatov
journalism
Website dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov, where you can find digitized texts of his works, photographs, drawings, and memoirs on the writer.
Aleksandr Daniliuk
politics
Digital archive of the Russian newspaper "Sibirskaia zhizn'" from 1894 to 1919.
Scientific Library of Tomsk State University
Digital archive
Сибирская трагедия, к 100-летию начала гражданской войны (A Siberian Tragedy: The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Civil War)
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Сибирская трагедия: идеологический аспект (The Siberian Tragedy: An Ideological Aspect)
Document collection on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, published by the State Archival Administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast and the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
K. V. Zakharov et al.
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Смена--архив номеров (Smena–Archive of Issues)
society
Digital archive of the Soviet literary journal "Smena".
The "Smena" Magazine
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
События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов (The Events in the Semirechye in the Year 1916 in the Documents of Russian Archives)
Turkestan Revolt
Semirechye Revolt
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
Rosarchiv
1916
Semirechye
Turkestan
Советская Бурятия (Soviet Buryatia) VK Group
national culture
folklore
film
ethnography
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
VK group
Social media
Советская и постсоветская музыка (Soviet and Post-Soviet music) VK Group
psychedelia
underground art
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.
socialist realism
A private database of socialist realist music and popular music related to ideology and patriotism. The section "rechi" (bottom left in white) includes some audio recordings of speeches by Soviet leaders.
СОВЕТСКИЕ ГРУЗИНСКИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ (Soviet Georgian Films) YouTube playlist
cinema
A YouTube playlist with hundreds of Soviet Georgian films.
Dora-von (YouTube Channel)
YouTube channel
Georgian
Georgia
South Caucasus
Советские детские книги и учебники СССР (Soviet children's books and textbooks) VK Group
children
fairy tale
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet children's books and textbooks, as well as children's journals and film strips.
Советские киргизские фильмы (Soviet Kyrgyz Film) YouTube playlist
A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.
KyrgyzDuinosu (YouTube Channel)
Kyrgyz
СОВЕТСКИЕ КИРГИЗСКИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ (Soviet Kyrgyz Films) YouTube playlist
Советские мультфильмы (Soviet cartoons) VK Group
cartoon
animation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
Советские ПСИХОДЕЛИЧЕСКИЕ мультики (Soviet PSYCHEDELIC cartoons) VK Group
surrealism
avant-garde
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
?-1991
СОВЕТСКИЕ ТАДЖИКСКИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ (Soviet Tajik Films) YouTube playlist
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Tajik films.
Tajik
Tajikistan
СОВЕТСКИЕ ТУРКМЕНСКИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ (Soviet Turkmen Films) YouTube playlist
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Turkmen films.
Turkmen
Turkmenistan
Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) Telegram Channel
school
A Telegram channel that shares digitized Soviet textbooks.
Telegram channel
Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet textbooks cataloged by grades and disciplines.
Советские фильмы - старые, добрые, лучшие! (Soviet films - old, kind, and the best!) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).
Советские фильмы, спектакли и телепередачи (Soviet films, plays, and TV programs) YouTube Channel
theater
MKhAT
theater "Sovremennik"
Lensovet theater
Vakhtangov theater
Malyi theater
Mayakovsky theater
Mossovet theater
Lenkom theater
television
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet films, TV programs, and theater productions.
Moldova
Советский альманах (Soviet almanac) VK Group
radio
media
everyday life
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
Vladivostok
Primorsky Krai
tourism
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
Old Vladivostok
Советский Союз: взлет сверхдержавы (The Soviet Union: The Rise of a Superpower)
Treaty of Rapallo
Soviet constitution
statehood
show trial
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
industrialization
letter
A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may be found from more reputable sources.
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