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Creator: Digital Maidan Archive

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 21st century| Kyiv

Creator: Державний архів міста Києва

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl| Kyiv

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: The New York Public Library

Language: Yiddish

A search for keyword "Ukraine" on the New York Public Library online archive brings up 1115 results. Sources in Judaica and Jewish history are especially rich, as well photos, illustrations, and other religious documents. The NYPL has also digitized its collection "Peasant art of subcarpathian Russia," comprising photos of physical artifacts and material culture from Zakarpattia. Researchers can…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Crimea| Galicia| Ivano-Frankivsk| Kherson| Kolomy| Kyiv| Odesa| Poltava| Rivne| Sevastopol| Volhynia| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державна архівна служба України

Language: Ukrainian

The State Archival Service of Ukraine has compiled unique documents from across Ukraine's archives into one digitized collection. Here one can find notable and rare sources from across 1000 years of Ukrainian history. Highlights include 12th century birch bark deeds with proto-Ukrainian language; diplomatic and religious documents from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; photos of 19th century…

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Khmelnytsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Middle Ages| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kyiv| Middle Ages| Odesa| Podil| Poltava| Sumy| Ternopil| Vinnytsia| Volyn

Creator: Меморіальний центр Голокосту "Бабин Яр"

Language: Ukrainian

A multimedia project on Babyn Yar and the history of the Holocaust, WWII, and the Soviet period in Ukraine by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The entire website is worth exploring, but two main areas will be of use to researchers. For a large digital library collection featuring many different kinds of sources, go to "library" (бібліотека) and then "explore library" (дослідити…

Tags: 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kherson| Kropivinsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Mikolaiv| Odesa| Poltava| Zaporizhzhia

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені Ярослава Мудрого

Language: Ukrainian

An online library of digitally available books from the Yaroslav Mudry National Library of Ukraine. The library comprises four major collections: culture, art, ethnography, and cultural institutions (libraries, archives, museums). Books are uploaded on the basis of their scientific, social, historic, and cultural value. Digitized materials number in the thousands. Users can locate sources using…

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

Language: Ukrainian

A small collection of Ukrainian newspapers published between 1825 and 1943. These include the Kyiv Telegraph, Soviet newspapers Pravda and Vysty VUTsVK, the newspaper of the Ukrainian anarchist movement Makhnovshchina from 1919, and local newspapers for Dnipro and Galicia.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Dnipro| Galicia| Kyiv

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

A completely digitized collection of archival documents, photos, newsreels, and academic articles on the history of the Babyn Yar region of Kyiv from the late 18th century through the 21st century. Many sources are dedicated to the massacre of 34,000 Jews in Babyn Yar in 1941, and more generally to the Holocaust and WWII in region. Researchers will also find sources on all aspects of life in the…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Kyiv

Creator: Державний архів Київської області

Language: Ukrainian

Users may choose from the categories "until 1917" and "1917-1991" on the first page of the Kyiv oblast digital archive. Collections preceding 1917 include archival collections of the Kyiv provincial board 1780-1919, Kyiv state chamber 1781-1919, Kyiv provincial commission of the first general census in 1897, and office of the Kyiv Provincial Governor of the Provisional Government 1917-1918. These…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Kyiv