The Ternopil oblast archive website has four digitized collections, including:
1. Metric book records of the city magistrate of Kremenets, 1781-1869
2. Metric book records of the Jewish synagogue in Kremenets and other records on Jewish community birth, marriage, divorce, and death, 1870-1938
3. Metric books of Ternopil's Greek Catholic communities, 1784-1944
4. Archives of the Ternopil…
The Sumy oblast archive has digitized a great number of archival documents, newspapers, and metric books pertaining to a wide variety of historical topics, mostly from the late imperial period through the Second World War. Users can explore digitized archival collections of institutions, organizations, and enterprises from the late imperial period, provisional government and independent Ukrainian…
Digitized archival documents are divided into two chronological categories: "Окупаційний період" (occupation period) and "Радянський період" (Soviet period), although the documents within these categories extend beyond those chronological boundaries. The occupation period documents feature OUN, UPA, and partisan documents from 1936-1957, especially World War II. The "Soviet period" documents…
The Odesa oblast archive has digitized archival documents from throughout the region's modern history. To access digital files, click "Електронний архів: фонди, описи, документи" (digital archive: collections, descriptions, documents) on the right-hand toolbar. Besides archival finding aids, many original primary sources are digitized. These include the 1897 Odesa census; metric books and birth…
The Luhansk regional archive has digitized Fond 303, a collection of decrees and government records from the Luhansk regional government. The collection includes different districts' Department of Justice archives for the years 1939-1945. In addition, the website offers digitized copies of metric books from church parishes for the years 1851-1914, as well as a collection of documents pertaining to…
Several rich collections are digitally available on the Kyiv City archive's website. Found at this link, they include the "Чорнобіль. Хроника Києва. Он-лайн архів" (Chornobyl. Kyiv Chronicle. Online archive), a rich source on the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and its aftermath. This collection includes 504 digitized archival documents from three different archival collections pertaining to all…
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.
Digitized collections from the Kharkiv oblast archive include metric books pertaining to Christian, Jewish, and civil communities in the 19th and 20th centuries; birth, marriage, divorce, and deaths records for the 1920s-40s; registers from the Nazi occupation of the 1940s; audit documents from the 18th and 19th centuries; and books on the genealogy of local nobles from the Kharkiv region for the…
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.
This vast database contains published document collections, oral history collections, old metric books, law collections, archival collections, and more. This is a good initial place to look for any research topic. Sources are categorized under "Е-Джерела" (E-resources) by period, and there is also a search function.
Digitized archive documents are found at the "Колекція документів на пергаменті Державного архіву Волинської області" (collection of documents on parchment from the State Archive of Volyn Oblast) and "Електронні справи" (digital files) hyperlinks on the given webpage. The former holds major documents on religious and political history in Latin and Polish. The latter holds rich town and village…
While this site holds a large number of rich archival sources, the digitized collection is somewhat difficult to navigate. For the committed researcher, however, the time taken to identify useful sources is worthwhile. Uploaded digitized files correspond to their opisy (descriptions), uploaded in a separate file. To navigate these collections, the researcher should locate the corresponding opis'…
The Central State Historical Archive in Lviv has digitized four major collections on its website. These include:
F. 12, op. 1: legal rulings and acts of the Perevorsk district court, 15th-18th centuries;
F. 132, op.1: letters of state, civil, and church leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and other countries 1516-1888 (includes notable figures such as Boris Khmelnytsky);
F. 310 op. 1, archives of…
The online document exhibitions of the Central State Historical Archive reveal a rich array of metric books, law books, parish registers, and religious and military documents from different Ukrainian provinces over several centuries. One can find metric book information on various religious communities, including Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians.
A collection of hundreds of digitized metric books from different church and synagogue districts in Donetsk region from 1800-1928. These historical records document local births, marriages, and deaths.
The Dnipropetrovsk oblast archive website holds digitized documents from the region's early Soviet history, especially on famine and repression, as well as church and synagogue metric books. Under the heading "elektronyy arkhiv" on the lefthand toolbar, "kartoteky" holds the registration cards of people (including kulaks) deported from Ukraine and sent to special settlements in the 1930s and1940s.…
The Central State Electronic Archive holds several digitized collections on its website (despite the name, other electronic holdings must be accessed at the physical archive). These include metric books collections from Donetsk, Crimea, and Sevastopol; records from German occupation in the 1940s (in German language); and state security records for Ukraine for 1916-1941. Metric books collections…