A digital project by academics Dr. Miriam Dobson and Dr. Nadezhda Beliakova, sharing primary sources collected during their research on Protestant communities in the USSR, many of whom were located in Ukraine. Sources include archival documents from state archives and Memorial, original oral history interviews with accompanying English transcriptions, and correspondence. Click "site-map" for a…
The CIA's declassified collection of digitized documents, available in its online reading room, is a rich source for Ukrainian and Soviet history. A simple search for "Soviet Ukraine" revealed thousands of relevant results and more advanced search is possible. The wide array of U.S. intelligence documents sheds light on a great variety of issues and questions on Ukraine during the Soviet period.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Based in Lviv, the Center for Urban History houses digital projects pertaining to the urban history of Ukraine, especially Lviv. Since the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, the Center has embarked on an intensive project to digitize more materials. Open access online sources are found on the "Digital" section of the Center's website. Most interesting is the "Urban Media Archive," a…
The VUFKU "Lost and Found" digital archive stores information, film, photos, and promotional materials from the Ukrainian film revolution of the 1920s-30s. Between 1922 and 1930, the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration released hundreds of feature films, documentaries, newsreels, and cartoons that together constituted the heyday of "Ukrainian Hollywood." The database includes information on…
Extensive collection of publications, internal documents and statistics, children’s and youth newsletters, personal recollections, and other sources from Ukrainian independence movements from 1917-1991. Users can search materials by category, date, author, institution/organization, document name, keywords and archival institution.
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…
Many documents from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO) are available in digitized or published format on the archive's website. Documents are available both in published document collections as well as documentary exhibitions. To browse document collections, choose "publikatsiyi" (publications) from the main toolbar. Here you can access free…
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory houses several digital archive projects, including features on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, World War II, Ukrainian independence, contemporary Russian aggression against Ukraine, and more. Users can find links to these projects on the website's homepage, linked here.
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.
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…
Sixty-nine oral history interviews conducted in 1995-1996 and pertaining to Soviet collapse and the formation of independent Ukraine from 1988-1991. Interviews were conducted with Mikhail Gorbachev and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, and with numerous politicians, dissidents, religious figures, diplomats, journalists, businesspeople, scientists, and military and intelligence officers.…
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.
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…
Digitized audio recordings from a large-scale oral history project conducted by Ukrainian scholars led by William Noll in 1993-1995. Interviews were conducted with people who lived in rural western and central Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. They examine the transformation of rural society throughout this period. About 100 interviews are available online. They are presented without transcript, so…