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.
Digitized archival documents are divided into two chronological categories: "Окупаційний період" (occupation period) and "Радянський період" (Soviet period), although the documents within these categories extend beyond those chronological boundaries. The occupation period documents feature OUN, UPA, and partisan documents from 1936-1957, especially World War II. The "Soviet period" documents…
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…
Archive of Ukrainian periodicals dating back to 1896. Sources are most numerous for 1917-1945. You can search for items and filter by date, location, or publication title, or browse aggregated collections by clicking "Колекції" (collections) on the homepage.
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.
A significant proportion of the United States Holocaust Museum's archive collections are available online. These pertain not only to the Holocaust in Ukraine but also life in Ukraine before WWII. When searching, select the "public domain" filter to find open access sources. You can also filter by relevant city (several Ukrainian ones), key event, camp, or ghetto, or using search terms. For…
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…
Materials available on the Zakarpattia Oblast archive website are all links to other sites (Arcanum, Czech KGB archive and Hungaricana, all listed on the Fontes database) or finding aids for documents held in the physical archive (not scans of the actual documents).
The Central State Historical Archive in Lviv has digitized four major collections on its website. These include:
F. 12, op. 1: legal rulings and acts of the Perevorsk district court, 15th-18th centuries;
F. 132, op.1: letters of state, civil, and church leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and other countries 1516-1888 (includes notable figures such as Boris Khmelnytsky);
F. 310 op. 1, archives of…
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.
A specific yet detailed source for studies of 19th century Habsburg Ukraine. The Chernivtsi National University in Western Ukraine provides digitized scans of the regional newspaper "Bukovina" for the years 1885 and 1886. Prominent literary and intellectual figures contributed to the newspaper, which was largely dedicated to growing Slavic identity in the Austro-Hungarian empire.