The archive of photographs of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the World War I includes over 3000 photos. The original photo negatives on glass are preserved at the Ukrainian Museum and Library (Stamford, Connecticut).
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,…
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.
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.
Since the Maidan Revolutions of 2013-2014, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory has collected oral history accounts from the Maidan Revolutions and, subsequently, of the Russo-Ukrainian War from 2015 through the present. Transcripts of these oral histories have been collected into several-volume books that are available for free download in both ePub and PDF formats. Each volume is devoted…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
An online archive of Ukrainian revolution materials organized by month from May 1917-April 1921. Clicking each month leads to a page with archival documents and photos from that month in the revolution. These images come directly from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO).
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.
The State Archival Service of Ukraine compiled this database of Ukrainian victims of Soviet repression from the 1920s-50s. The database information is drawn from different archives throughout Ukraine. Overall, entries on victims provide basic biographical information and in some cases a photograph. Individuals are searchable by name, nationality, and other keywords.
Since 2011, the "Rehabilitated by History" book series has published collections of archival documents, biographical and memoir essays, and studies pertaining to NKVD/KGB activity, political persecution, and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine. Focus on the victims of repression and their personal stories is especially rich in this project. Several "Rehabilitated by History" books have been…
Collections of records from various science, engineering, technical, military and industrial projects in Ukraine in the late Soviet period. To find open access digitized materials (as opposed to listings of undigitized archival holdings): under "Пошук", select "Пошук за атрибутам". On the next page, select "Цифрова копія документа НАФ" ("digitized copy of NAF document") and search categories will…
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.
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.
A nearly complete 1921 census performed in the Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) region in 1921, shortly after its incorporation into the new state of Czechoslovakia in 1920. Zakarpattia, now part of contemporary Ukraine, was part of the Czechoslovak state from 1920 until World War II. Census materials are in Czech and Hungarian.
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…