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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: Героика

Language: Ukrainian

The "names of independent Ukraine" database provides information on Ukrainian soldiers who were active in the country's independence struggles from 1917-1924, including military registers, biographical information, and related photos, monuments, and documents. The project includes several oral histories, and some soldiers' entries include more thorough information. The database estimates that it…

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: Hungaricana

Language: Czech

A nearly complete 1921 census performed in the Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) region in 1921, shortly after its incorporation into the new state of Czechoslovakia in 1920. Zakarpattia, now part of contemporary Ukraine, was part of the Czechoslovak state from 1920 until World War II. Census materials are in Czech and Hungarian.

Tags: 20th century| Zakarpattia

Creator: Державний архів Тернопільської області

Language: Polish

The Ternopil oblast archive website has four digitized collections, including:
1. Metric book records of the city magistrate of Kremenets, 1781-1869
2. Metric book records of the Jewish synagogue in Kremenets and other records on Jewish community birth, marriage, divorce, and death, 1870-1938
3. Metric books of Ternopil's Greek Catholic communities, 1784-1944
4. Archives of the Ternopil…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Ternopil

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 Полтавської області

Language: Russian

The Poltava archive has digitized collections on local government, media, and everyday life from the late imperial period up through the 1917 revolution. These include extensive council reports by the Poltava zemstvo (elected council that administered local affairs), 1868-1915. Reports pertain to all aspects of local life and government in the late imperial period. Access the Google drive folder…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Poltava

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 Миколаївської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Mikolaiv regional archive's digitized documents include metric books and state registration records from the 19th century through 1940s, house books listing extensive information in Mikolaiv's individuals and communities in the 1930s-40s, and audit records of Mikolaiv's Jewish population 1806-1875.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Mikolaiv

Creator: Державний архів міста Києва

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chornobyl| Kyiv

Creator: Державний архів Кіровоградської області.

Tags: 20th century| Kirovohrad

Creator: Державний архів Хмельницької області

Language: Russian

Archival documents, especially metric books, from Khmelnytskyi and other regions of Ukraine. To explore the digitized collection, hover over "Архів - on line" on the front page's lefthand toolbar and choose your collection of interest. Collection 18 contains metric books on births, marriages, and deaths residents of Khmelnytskyi and other Ukrainian regions 1769-1927; collection 17 contains metric…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Khmelnytsky| Volhynia

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: Крим—це Україна

Language: Ukrainian

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.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Crimea| Kherson

Creator: Державний архів Чернігівської області

Language: 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…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv

Creator: Центр міської історії

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Lviv

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