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Creator: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Language: Czech

This Czech project documents the political repression of Czechoslovak people by the Soviet government. It includes a rich collection of digitized NKVD/KGB investigation files from Ukrainian archives, namely Zakarpattia, which had a large Czech population in the early Soviet period. While the website is in Czech, the uploaded case files are in the original Russian. These documents from Ukrainian…

Tags: 20th century| Ivano-Frankivsk| Lviv| Odesa| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Державний архів Одеської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Odesa oblast archive has digitized archival documents from throughout the region's modern history. To access digital files, click "Електронний архів: фонди, описи, документи" (digital archive: collections, descriptions, documents) on the right-hand toolbar. Besides archival finding aids, many original primary sources are digitized. These include the 1897 Odesa census; metric books and birth…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

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: Odesa I. Mechnikov University

Language: Ukrainian

A collection of foreign and Ukrainian early modern texts, rare editions of 19th and 20th century books, and periodicals. This source is especially rich in local lore and literature on Odesa and the Northern Black Sea Coast, and local newspapers dating back to the 18th century.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

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

Creator: Central State Electronic Archive of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Electronic Archive holds several digitized collections on its website (despite the name, other electronic holdings must be accessed at the physical archive). These include metric books collections from Donetsk, Crimea, and Sevastopol; records from German occupation in the 1940s (in German language); and state security records for Ukraine for 1916-1941. Metric books collections…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Crimea| Dnipro| Donetsk| Odesa| Zhytomyr