The Digital Maidan Archive is a voluntary history project created to preserve the memory of the Maidan Revolution of 2013-2014. The goal of the project is to create an electronic database of the sources about the events of the Revolution of Dignity. The site consists of three main sections: the history of the Maidan, video and photo archives.
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.
Scans and transcripts of diaries from Ukraine, the Russian empire, and the Soviet Union, from the 19th century through today. Users can search for Ukrainian-language diaries as well as Russian-language diaries pertaining to Ukrainian history (Belarusian diaries are available too). Diaries and diary entries can be searched by included words, year, gender, topic, and more. This is a valuable site…
Extensive collection of publications, internal documents and statistics, children’s and youth newsletters, personal recollections, and other sources from Ukrainian independence movements from 1917-1991. Users can search materials by category, date, author, institution/organization, document name, keywords and archival institution.
The digital archives of the Literature and Art Archive-Museum of Ukraine house three large personal collections of notable Ukrainian figures of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Beretti architects, who designed and built many notable buildings in 19th century St. Petersburg and Kyiv; the Orientalist, linguist, and founder of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Ahatanhel Krymsky; and…
This free online library of Ukrainian-language literature houses open access copies of many Ukrainian works, including books and periodical publications. Researchers can explore works by genre, including historical, literary, scientific, religious, and humor, or search by author or keyword. There's a lot here, including not only classic published works but also brochures, ephemera, pulp fiction,…
An ongoing online project that aims to compile and make accessible the complete works of famed Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital collection includes works written, edited, and collaborated on by Hrushevsky; studies of Hrushevksy; his personal documents and correspondence as well as those of people close to him; archival, state, legal, and financial documents related to…
A major North American center for the study of the Jews of Eastern Europe, YIVO offers a great bulk of its archival materials in digital, open-access form. At the given link, browse through several YIVO digital archive projects pertaining to the Jewish history of Eastern Europe and migration. While there is no set collection pertaining to contemporary Ukraine, users can find many sources related…
The Yad Vashem open access digital collections include a central database of Holocaust victims' names; an enormous photo archive of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust, including in Ukraine; a database of "the righteous among the nations", those who helped Jews (1448 records for Ukrainian persons — you can then filter by profession, religion, and gender); a large number of digitized…
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…
This site compiles hundreds of archival documents the State Archives of Kharkiv oblast and the State Security archive of Kyiv pertaining to the Holodomor famine of the 1930s as experienced across Ukraine and in Kharkiv oblast' in particular. It includes additional records from Kharkiv libraries and other institutions, providing a lens into Holodomor in one province. Users can also find published…
The Chernobyl archive, a project by the Chernobyl Historical Workshop, is designed to preserve and transmit the history of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. It comprises over 200 oral history interviews and written essays by first responders, liquidators, displaced persons, and others who experienced or were affected by the disaster. Interviews are available in both audio and written transcript…