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Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Database of publications by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences dating back to the 1920s. While much of the content is from recent years, users can search by date to find historic publications. Especially rich for archaeological expeditions in Ukraine during the Soviet period.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна академія наук України

Language: Ukrainian

Open access PDF copies of several archaeological academic journals from the early Soviet period through the present.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

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: Національна історична бібліотека України

Language: Ukrainian

This online archive compiles journals, papers, archival materials, and other publications created within the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences during the early Soviet period. Users can search using keywords or by browsing the collections of different departments, including history, philology, archaeology, museum studies, arts, socioeconomics, anthropology, and more.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Державний архів Сумської області

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Sumy

Creator: Державний архів Полтавської області

Language: Russian

The Poltava archive has digitized collections on local government, media, and everyday life from the late imperial period up through the 1917 revolution. These include extensive council reports by the Poltava zemstvo (elected council that administered local affairs), 1868-1915. Reports pertain to all aspects of local life and government in the late imperial period. Access the Google drive folder…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Poltava

Creator: Український культурний фонд

Language: Ukrainian

This project collects and digitizes literary art magazines produced in Kharkiv between the 1910s and 1930s, valuable artifacts that are otherwise scattered throughout libraries in Ukraine and often in poor condition. These valuable artifacts are works dedicated to art and theater amid the background of early 20th century revolution, and constitute works of art themselves. The project ultimately…

Tags: 20th century| Kharkiv

Creator: ELibUkr (Electronic Library of Ukraine)

Language: Ukrainian

Links to the digital archives of major research institutions and universities in Ukraine. Many of these institutions and universities hold digital archives dating back to Soviet times.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Donetsk| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Sumy| Ternopil| Vinnytsia| Zhytomyr

Creator: College of Europe Natolin Campus

Language: English

The Three Revolutions project compiles sources on the three revolutions that have occurred on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) since 1990 — The Revolution on Granite (1990), the Orange Revolution (2004-2005), and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013-2014). These materials include archival documents, media, and original oral history interviews. To access the project's open access…

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

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: Internet Archive

Language: Ukrainian

This Internet Archive collection preserves primary source online materials from the Ukrainian revolutions and Russian-Ukrainian conflict of the 21st century (before the 2022 war). The Ukrainian Conflict internet archive is a collaborative project by the Internet Archive team, Stanford University, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Library of Congress, and Global Investigative News…

Tags: 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Center for Research on the Liberation Movement

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Archival Information Systems

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of Ukrainian periodicals dating back to 1896. Sources are most numerous for 1917-1945. You can search for items and filter by date, location, or publication title, or browse aggregated collections by clicking "Колекції" (collections) on the homepage.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

This collection of digitized materials from the V. I. Vernadsky National Library ranges from throughout Ukrainian culture and history. Researchers will find a great number of archival, visual, published, and audio sources spanning many centuries. This source is especially good for pre-20th century history. Users can search by collection, source type, or using the search function.

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

Creator: Чтиво елеткронна бібліотека

Language: Ukrainian

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,…

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

Creator: The Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre

Language: Ukrainian

A large collection of oral histories in video, audio, and written transcript formats. These oral histories cover Holodomor, World War II, the Holocaust, and the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. With over 2,200 hours of interviews conducted over 30 years and about 80% digitized, this is one of the largest Ukrainian oral history collections in North America. In addition to oral histories, the UCRDC…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Blavatnik Archive Foundation

Language: English

The Blavatnik Archive is a non-profit organization that collects materials on 20th century Jewish life not typically found in standard archives: postcards, ephemera, correspondence, and more. About 15 percent of the archive's content is available online, and this number continues to grow as the foundation uploads more materials. Online collections offer rich materials on Jewish life and…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Diasporiana

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of writing and periodicals from the Ukrainian diaspora, particularly in North America, dating back 125 years. Includes drama, poetry, political science, children’s books, folklore, and over 8,000 periodical publications (mostly from the mid-20th century).

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Российская национальная библиотека

Language: Russian

The Russian National Library's online collection of digitized newspapers includes many newspapers from Ukraine in both Ukrainian and Russian languages. Collections are especially rich for the mid-19th century through the 1940s, but researchers will find materials for as early as the 1700s and as late as the 2000s. Collections are organized by city, so the researcher must know which cities they are…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine