The Sumy oblast archive has digitized a great number of archival documents, newspapers, and metric books pertaining to a wide variety of historical topics, mostly from the late imperial period through the Second World War. Users can explore digitized archival collections of institutions, organizations, and enterprises from the late imperial period, provisional government and independent Ukrainian…
The Chernihiv oblast archive has digitized collections from the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods and from the region's communist party archives. To access digitized files, click "Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн" (digitized descriptions and files online) on the front page lefthand tool bar. Then click "ОПИСИ" for descriptions of collections and on "СПРАВИ (оцифровані ДАЧО)" to select from…
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…
The Central State Archives of Public Association (CDAGO) online exhibitions include numerous original scans from their archival collection. This website URL brings researchers to a list of exhibition topics spanning the breadth of modern Ukrainian history, including literary figures and movements, World War II, the Afghan War, the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the 1920s…
The digital archives of the Literature and Art Archive-Museum of Ukraine house three large personal collections of notable Ukrainian figures of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Beretti architects, who designed and built many notable buildings in 19th century St. Petersburg and Kyiv; the Orientalist, linguist, and founder of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Ahatanhel Krymsky; and…
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.
Dedicated to celebrated Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and intellectual Taras Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar ("the bard"). The collection includes scans of Shevchenko's original handwritten writings, published works, paintings and illustrations, and personal and biographical documents. Click the three-lines icon on the lefthand toolbar to access the menu.
An ongoing online project that aims to compile and make accessible the complete works of famed Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital collection includes works written, edited, and collaborated on by Hrushevsky; studies of Hrushevksy; his personal documents and correspondence as well as those of people close to him; archival, state, legal, and financial documents related to…
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…