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Creator: Героика

Language: Ukrainian

The "names of independent Ukraine" database provides information on Ukrainian soldiers who were active in the country's independence struggles from 1917-1924, including military registers, biographical information, and related photos, monuments, and documents. The project includes several oral histories, and some soldiers' entries include more thorough information. The database estimates that it…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Language: English

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's historical and contemporary atlas projects provide data, statistics, maps, photographs, and analysis on a wide range of topics throughout Ukrainian history, as well as on contemporary politics and society. MAPA brings the latest innovations in information technology to Ukrainian studies in this approach to the country's past and present. The breadth of…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| Early Modern| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: OUN

Language: Ukrainian

This is a website run by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) based in London. Digitized sources relate both to the OUN and nationalism, and to other topics in 20th century Ukrainian history. Includes oral history interviews of nationalist figures as well as other prominent Ukrainian figures, including video components.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Arcanum

Language: Ukrainian

A compilation of Habsburg-era cadastral maps that show the boundaries of privately owned land and public land in Zakarpattia. Now a region in western Ukraine, Zarkapattia belonged to the Austrian and then Austro-Hungarian empires in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державний архів Херсонської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Kherson oblast archive's digitized sources include extensive collections pertaining to imperial and Soviet-era local government, religion, everyday life, economy, and various institutions. The collection mostly ranges from the mid-to-late 19th century through World War II.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Kherson

Creator: Крим—це Україна

Language: Ukrainian

This Ukrainian government project showcases archival documents from the history of Crimea to demonstrate the region's Ukrainian identity, in response to the 2014 annexation by Russia. The collection includes documents on the 1853-6 Crimean War, Crimean Tatars, the 1917 Revolution in Crimea, 19th and 20th century tourism to the peninsula, and more.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Crimea| Kherson

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Ukrainica is a major database compiling reference, informational, and documentary sources on the broadest areas of Ukrainian history, culture, economics, and more. Its sources are archival, published, and manuscript documents and include materials created both within and without Ukraine, on all topics related to documenting the history and heritage of the Ukrainian people.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Cossackdom.com

Language: Russian

An electronic database compiling sources and information on Ukrainian and Russian cossacks from the 15th through 21st centuries. While many documents are secondary sources, researchers can find published archival document collections, visual sources including maps and illustrations, historical songs and ethnographic collections, and more.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Litopys

Language: Ukrainian

Books and other documents from Ukraine dating from the 800s through the 1700s. Sources include ancient chronicles and annals, classic literary works and poetry, historical and political works, and fiction. Users can browse different subcollections on the home page or use the search function.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: The New York Public Library

Language: Yiddish

A search for keyword "Ukraine" on the New York Public Library online archive brings up 1115 results. Sources in Judaica and Jewish history are especially rich, as well photos, illustrations, and other religious documents. The NYPL has also digitized its collection "Peasant art of subcarpathian Russia," comprising photos of physical artifacts and material culture from Zakarpattia. Researchers can…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Crimea| Galicia| Ivano-Frankivsk| Kherson| Kolomy| Kyiv| Odesa| Poltava| Rivne| Sevastopol| Volhynia| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державний архів Закарпатської області

Language: Ukrainian

Materials available on the Zakarpattia Oblast archive website are all links to other sites (Arcanum, Czech KGB archive and Hungaricana, all listed on the Fontes database) or finding aids for documents held in the physical archive (not scans of the actual documents).

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Zakarpattia

Creator: Odesa I. Mechnikov University

Language: Ukrainian

A collection of foreign and Ukrainian early modern texts, rare editions of 19th and 20th century books, and periodicals. This source is especially rich in local lore and literature on Odesa and the Northern Black Sea Coast, and local newspapers dating back to the 18th century.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

Creator: Меморіальний центр Голокосту "Бабин Яр"

Language: Ukrainian

A multimedia project on Babyn Yar and the history of the Holocaust, WWII, and the Soviet period in Ukraine by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The entire website is worth exploring, but two main areas will be of use to researchers. For a large digital library collection featuring many different kinds of sources, go to "library" (бібліотека) and then "explore library" (дослідити…

Tags: 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kherson| Kropivinsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Mikolaiv| Odesa| Poltava| Zaporizhzhia

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

A completely digitized collection of archival documents, photos, newsreels, and academic articles on the history of the Babyn Yar region of Kyiv from the late 18th century through the 21st century. Many sources are dedicated to the massacre of 34,000 Jews in Babyn Yar in 1941, and more generally to the Holocaust and WWII in region. Researchers will also find sources on all aspects of life in the…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Kyiv