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Creator: Український інститут національної пам'яті

Language: Ukrainian

Since the Maidan Revolutions of 2013-2014, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory has collected oral history accounts from the Maidan Revolutions and, subsequently, of the Russo-Ukrainian War from 2015 through the present. Transcripts of these oral histories have been collected into several-volume books that are available for free download in both ePub and PDF formats. Each volume is devoted…

Tags: 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Miriam Dobson and Nadezhda Beliakova

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: CIA.gov

Language: English

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: European Research Council

Language: English

Visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground under state socialism, sourced from secret police archives in Central and Eastern Europe. While materials pertain to religious groups throughout 20th-century socialist Europe, Ukraine is a major focus of the archive. Ukrainian materials are found throughout the various collections and…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: OUN

Language: Ukrainian

This is a website run by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) based in London. Digitized sources relate both to the OUN and nationalism, and to other topics in 20th century Ukrainian history. Includes oral history interviews of nationalist figures as well as other prominent Ukrainian figures, including video components.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Державна архівна служба України

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Український інститут національної пам'яті

Language: Ukrainian

Since 2011, the "Rehabilitated by History" book series has published collections of archival documents, biographical and memoir essays, and studies pertaining to NKVD/KGB activity, political persecution, and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine. Focus on the victims of repression and their personal stories is especially rich in this project. Several "Rehabilitated by History" books have been…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Державний архів Сумської області

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Sumy

Creator: Державний архів Рівненської області

Language: Russian

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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Rivne

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: Державний архів Кіровоградської області.

Tags: 20th century| Kirovohrad

Creator: Державний архів Херсонської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Kherson oblast archive's digitized sources include extensive collections pertaining to imperial and Soviet-era local government, religion, everyday life, economy, and various institutions. The collection mostly ranges from the mid-to-late 19th century through World War II.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Kherson

Creator: Державний архів Харківської області

Language: Ukrainian

Digitized collections from the Kharkiv oblast archive include metric books pertaining to Christian, Jewish, and civil communities in the 19th and 20th centuries; birth, marriage, divorce, and deaths records for the 1920s-40s; registers from the Nazi occupation of the 1940s; audit documents from the 18th and 19th centuries; and books on the genealogy of local nobles from the Kharkiv region for the…

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

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: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory has created and compiled a diverse range of oral histories on topics throughout modern Ukrainian history. Interviews touch on everything from the Holodomor of the 1930s through the 21st century revolutions in Ukraine.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: European University in St. Petersburg

Language: Ukrainian

Scans and transcripts of diaries from Ukraine, the Russian empire, and the Soviet Union, from the 19th century through today. Users can search for Ukrainian-language diaries as well as Russian-language diaries pertaining to Ukrainian history (Belarusian diaries are available too). Diaries and diary entries can be searched by included words, year, gender, topic, and more. This is a valuable site…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Center for Research on the Liberation Movement

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Central State Archives of Public Associations of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine