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.
Collections of records from various science, engineering, technical, military and industrial projects in Ukraine in the late Soviet period. To find open access digitized materials (as opposed to listings of undigitized archival holdings): under "Пошук", select "Пошук за атрибутам". On the next page, select "Цифрова копія документа НАФ" ("digitized copy of NAF document") and search categories will…
This online archive compiles journals, papers, archival materials, and other publications created within the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences during the early Soviet period. Users can search using keywords or by browsing the collections of different departments, including history, philology, archaeology, museum studies, arts, socioeconomics, anthropology, and more.
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.
The Chernivtsi oblast archive's digital collection covers much of the region's 20th century history, under Polish, Soviet, and independent Ukrainian rule. On the left hand toolbar click "Електронний архів" (digital archive) and then choose "дорадянські фонді" (pre-Soviet collections) for 1918-1944 archive documents and "радянські фонді" (Soviet collections) for 1940-1991 photo materials. The…
Links to the digital archives of major research institutions and universities in Ukraine. Many of these institutions and universities hold digital archives dating back to Soviet times.
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…
Ukrainica is a major database compiling reference, informational, and documentary sources on the broadest areas of Ukrainian history, culture, economics, and more. Its sources are archival, published, and manuscript documents and include materials created both within and without Ukraine, on all topics related to documenting the history and heritage of the Ukrainian people.
An electronic database compiling sources and information on Ukrainian and Russian cossacks from the 15th through 21st centuries. While many documents are secondary sources, researchers can find published archival document collections, visual sources including maps and illustrations, historical songs and ethnographic collections, and more.
This collection of digitized materials from the V. I. Vernadsky National Library ranges from throughout Ukrainian culture and history. Researchers will find a great number of archival, visual, published, and audio sources spanning many centuries. This source is especially good for pre-20th century history. Users can search by collection, source type, or using the search function.
While this site holds a large number of rich archival sources, the digitized collection is somewhat difficult to navigate. For the committed researcher, however, the time taken to identify useful sources is worthwhile. Uploaded digitized files correspond to their opisy (descriptions), uploaded in a separate file. To navigate these collections, the researcher should locate the corresponding opis'…