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Creator: Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

This is a project of the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine to digitize 12,000 museum objects and create a website with open access to a collection of memorabilia related to the renowned 20th century director Les Kurbas. The digitized items include photographs, manuscripts, documents, posters, set models, costume sketches, set designs, materials from the archives of the Young Theater,…

Creator: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

The selection of digitized legal documents, photos and videos pertaining to forced industrialization and Holodomor. In addition, there is a collection of correspondence by Jerry Berman, an engineer from South Africa who witnessed Holodomor during his work in the Soviet Union in 1932-1935.

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: 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: Miriam Dobson and Nadezhda Beliakova

Language: English

A digital project by academics Dr. Miriam Dobson and Dr. Nadezhda Beliakova, sharing primary sources collected during their research on Protestant communities in the USSR, many of whom were located in Ukraine. Sources include archival documents from state archives and Memorial, original oral history interviews with accompanying English transcriptions, and correspondence. Click "site-map" for a…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: CIA.gov

Language: English

The CIA's declassified collection of digitized documents, available in its online reading room, is a rich source for Ukrainian and Soviet history. A simple search for "Soviet Ukraine" revealed thousands of relevant results and more advanced search is possible. The wide array of U.S. intelligence documents sheds light on a great variety of issues and questions on Ukraine during the Soviet period.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: European Research Council

Language: English

Visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground under state socialism, sourced from secret police archives in Central and Eastern Europe. While materials pertain to religious groups throughout 20th-century socialist Europe, Ukraine is a major focus of the archive. Ukrainian materials are found throughout the various collections and…

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: 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: 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: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Language: Ukrainian

The Mykhailo Maksymovych scientific library at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has scanned and digitized over 3000 old and rare books ranging from the 15th through the late 19th centuries. Books come from all over Europe and include many culturally significant books from Ukraine. Users can use "advanced search" to search by author, title, period, or publisher, or click "browse…

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

Creator: Всеукраїнське фотокіноуправління

Language: Ukrainian

The VUFKU "Lost and Found" digital archive stores information, film, photos, and promotional materials from the Ukrainian film revolution of the 1920s-30s. Between 1922 and 1930, the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration released hundreds of feature films, documentaries, newsreels, and cartoons that together constituted the heyday of "Ukrainian Hollywood." The database includes information on…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Одеська національна наукова бібліотека

Language: Ukrainian

A database of engravings depicting Ukraine or by Ukrainian artists from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Browse engravings by century or depicted country. The collection is especially rich in depictions of 19th century Odesa.

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

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory houses several digital archive projects, including features on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, World War II, Ukrainian independence, contemporary Russian aggression against Ukraine, and more. Users can find links to these projects on the website's homepage, linked here.

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

Creator: Бібліотека українського мистецтва

Language: Ukrainian

A go-to website for finding Ukrainian art and artists. Browse hundreds of digital scans of paintings, photographs, postcards, exhibition catalogues, rare books, and other sources from throughout Ukrainian history. Users can search by artist or keyword, or explore categories organized by art movement, medium, chronological period, and more. The section "eksklyusiv" (exclusive) found on the top menu…

Tags: 19th century| 20th 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: 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: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Language: English

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…

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