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.
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…
This Ukrainian government project showcases archival documents from the history of Crimea to demonstrate the region's Ukrainian identity, in response to the 2014 annexation by Russia. The collection includes documents on the 1853-6 Crimean War, Crimean Tatars, the 1917 Revolution in Crimea, 19th and 20th century tourism to the peninsula, and more.