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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: 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: 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: Центр міської історії

Language: Ukrainian

Based in Lviv, the Center for Urban History houses digital projects pertaining to the urban history of Ukraine, especially Lviv. Since the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, the Center has embarked on an intensive project to digitize more materials. Open access online sources are found on the "Digital" section of the Center's website. Most interesting is the "Urban Media Archive," a…

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Lviv

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory has created and compiled a diverse range of oral histories on topics throughout modern Ukrainian history. Interviews touch on everything from the Holodomor of the 1930s through the 21st century revolutions in Ukraine.

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

Creator: Ukrainian Catholic University

Language: English

Sixty-nine oral history interviews conducted in 1995-1996 and pertaining to Soviet collapse and the formation of independent Ukraine from 1988-1991. Interviews were conducted with Mikhail Gorbachev and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, and with numerous politicians, dissidents, religious figures, diplomats, journalists, businesspeople, scientists, and military and intelligence officers.…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Інститут історії України

Language: Ukrainian

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.

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

Creator: Center for Research on Ukrainian Heritage

Language: Russian

Digitized audio recordings from a large-scale oral history project conducted by Ukrainian scholars led by William Noll in 1993-1995. Interviews were conducted with people who lived in rural western and central Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. They examine the transformation of rural society throughout this period. About 100 interviews are available online. They are presented without transcript, so…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Yad Vashem

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

Video, audio, and written transcripts of oral histories on Holodomor and other Ukrainian famines of the 1920s-1940s. This compilation of oral histories pairs with the Holodomor Museum's burial map, a digital project where users can track the events of the Holodomor famine and other Soviet famines in Ukraine (those of 1921-1923 and 1946-7) by location. On the "Свідчення" (testimonies) page of the…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Kharkiv

Creator: Чорнобильська історична майстерня

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl